Review: Dorothea Tanning, New York Public Library
Roberta Smith, The New York Times
July 1992
At 82, Dorothea Tanning may qualify as the grande dame of Surrealism. She is the widow of Max Ernst, one of the movement’s leading lights. For most of the 30 years they were married, as well as the 16 since Ernst’s death, she has assiduously given the Surrealist vocabulary a feminine — and increasingly feminist — slant. […]