Another Language of Flowers

She was born in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1910 & learned to paint by visiting art museums. She attended Knox college, studied art in Chicago & in 1935 moved to New York City, where she supported herself with advertising art & painted in her spare time. A preoccupation with architecture, especially doors, windows & deep tunneling spaces, is a keynote show more of her style. Before & after her marriage to Max ernst she was occupied with stage & costume design for the likes of George Balachine & others. (Publisher Provided) Dorothea Tanning was born in Galesburg, Illinois on August 25, 1910. She attended art school in Chicago, but left to study informally on her own by roaming the Art Institute there. She was a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s and also dabbled in sculpture. She was married for 30 years to the Surrealist painter and sculptor Max Ernst. She also created ballet designs for George Balanchine, etchings for illustrated books, and the design of a house for herself and Ernst in the south of France. Later in life, she became a poet. Her works include A Table of Content, Coming to That, Chasm: A Weekend, and her autobiography, Between Lives: An Artist and Her World. She died on January 31, 2012 at the age of 101. (Bowker Author Biography) show less