Dorothea Tanning: ‘I’ve Always Been Perverse’
Gaby Wood, The Guardian
August 2004
Dorothea Tanning, the celebrated 93-year-old painter, sculptor, memoirist, novelist and poet, greets me at the door of her apartment on Fifth Avenue in lower Manhattan. She is moving with the aid of a walker on wheels; she can get around without it, she tells me (and there’s no question of being helped) but she doesn’t want to take any chances. […]