Dorothea TANNING
1910, USA

Name Dorothea TANNING
Birth 1910, USA
Lived & Active In New York, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2005 Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias 1955–1965. Kent Gallery, New York
2001 Dorothea Tanning: Collages, Drawings, Watercolors, and a Sculpture. Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Dorothea Tanning: Prodigal Papers Drawings-Watercolors-Gouaches. La Maison Francaise,
New York University, New York, NY
2000 Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond. Philadelphia Museum of Art
2000 Dorothea Tanning: Birthday Grafiken und Bucher. Max-Ernst-Kabinett, Bruhl, Germany
1999 Dorothea Tanning: Flowers. Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1999 Dorothea Tanning: Still in the Studio. Boston University Art Gallery
Dorothea Tanning: Another Language of Flowers. National Academy of Design, New York
1996 Dorothea Tanning: Estampes. Association des Amis de Max Ernst, Seillans, France
1993 Dorothea Tanning: Works 1942-1992. Camden Arts Center, London
Om Konst Kunde Tala (If Art Could Talk). Retrospective. Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden
1992 Mythic Talk: Paintings-Sculptures. Cavaliero/Navarra Fine Arts, New York
Dorothea Tanning: Hail Delirium! Print Retrospective. The New York Public Library, New York
1991 Con-sequences on Paper. Sedona Museum of Art, Sedona, Ariz.
Dorothea Tanning: Soft Sculpture and Works on Paper. Cavaliero Fine Arts, New York
1990 Dorothea Tanning: Messages. Nahan Contemporary, New York
1989 Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives. Runkel-Hue-Williams, London
Emotions. Stephen Schlesinger Gallery, New York
Projects: Dorothea Tanning. Works on paper. Albany Museum of Art
Tanning: Acts on Paper. Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston
1988 11 Paintings Dorothea Tanning. Kent Fine Art, New York
1987 Dorothea Tanning: Works on Paper. Mangel Gallery, Philadelphia
Dorothea Tanning: On Paper. Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston
Dorothea Tanning. Simms Fine Art Gallery, New Orleans
Dorothea Tanning. Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles
Dorothea Tanning: On Paper 1948-1986. Kent Fine Art, New York
1983 Dorothea Tanning: Works on Paper. Schlesinger-Boisante Gallery, New York
Dorothea Tanning: Paintings. Stephen Mazoh Gallery, New York
1982 Dorothea Tanning: Works on Paper. Cavaliero Fine Arts at the Basel Art Fair
1980 Dorothea Tanning. Yares Gallery, Scottsdale, Ariz.
1979 Dorothea Tanning: Ten Recent Paintings and A Biography. Gimple and Weitzenhoffer, New York
1978 Dorothea Tanning: Målningar, Collages, Teckningar, och etsningar. Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm
Dorothea Tanning: Drawings, Watercolors and Collages. J.P.L. Fine
Arts, London (org. by Galerie Bel\'Art)
1977 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Carneol, Gothenburg (org. by Galerie Bel\'Art)
1975 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm
1974 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Jan Krugier, Geneva.
Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvre. Retrospective, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Paris
1973 En Chair et En Or, etchings. Galerie Editions Georges Visat, Paris.
1971 Dorothea Tanning: opera grafica, Galerie Einaudi, Milan
Dorothea Tanning: Sculpture. Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Milan
Autour de La Maree. Galerie Suzanne Visat, Paris
1970 Dorothea Tanning: Sculptures. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
1969 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Geneva
1967 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Alphonse Chave, Venice
Dorothea Tanning. Retospective, Casino Communal, Albert Plage, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1966 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie d’Art Moderne, Suzanne Feigel, Basel
Dorothea Tanning: Peintures Rrecentes et Petites Sculptures d’Or. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
1965 Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
Dorothea Tanning. Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York
1964 Dorothea Tanning Bilder, Zeichnungen, Collagen. Amerika Haus, Berlin
1963 Personne. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
Dorothea Tanning: Bilder, Gouches, Zeichnungen, 1957-1963. Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne
1962 Dorothea Tanning. Edward Loeb, Paris
Dorothea Tanning: Peintures 1959-1962. Galerie Mouradian & Vallotton, Paris
1961 Dorothea Tanning. Galleria Galatea, Turin
Dorothea Tanning. Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, NY
Dorothea Tanning: Dessins en Noir et en Couleurs. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
1959 Accueil: Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Le point Cardinal, Paris
Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Mouradian & Vallotton, Paris
1955 Dorothea Tanning. Arthur Jeffress Gallery, London
1954 Dorothea Tanning: Peintures. Galerie Furstenburg, Paris
1953 Dorothea Tanning. Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York
1952 Dorothea Tanning. Honolulu Academy of Arts
1951 Dorothea Tanning. American Contemporary Gallery, Hollywood
1950 Sept Perils Spectraux: Lithographies en Couleurs par Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Les Pas Perdus, Paris
1948 Recent Paintings by Dorothea Tanning. Julien Levy Gallery, New York
1945 Dorothea Tanning. Caresse Crosby Gallery, Washington D.C.
1944 Dorothea Tanning. Julien Levy Gallery, New York
1934 Dorothea Tanning, New Orleans

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2004 Muse. Kent Gallery, New York
2003 The 1940’s: Modern American Art & Design. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Beyond the Surrealist Curtain: Sex, Sensuality, and Silence. Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
2001-2002 Surrealism: Desire Unbound. Tate Modern, London and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2001 The Surreal Woman: Femaleness and the Uncanny in Surrealism. Kunsthalle Bielefeld
2000-2001 Dreaming with Open Eyes: The Vera, Sylvia, and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada
and Surrealist Art. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Surreal Anatomies: Works on Paper by Hans Bellmer and Dorothea Tanning.
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
Surrealism. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
2000 Michael Rosenfeld Gallery: The First Decade. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
Societe Man Ray. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn.
Sweet Dreams & Nightmares: Dada & Surrealism from the Rosalind & Melvin
Jacobs Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
1999-2000 Surrealists in Exile and the Beginnings of the New York School.
Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid;
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000. Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York
1999 Dada Country: Duchamp and Friends in New Jersey. Hunterdon Museum of Art, Clinton, N.J.
Dance for a City: Fifty Years of the New York City Ballet. New York Historical Society
Surrealism: The Untamed Eye. Works from the Tate Collection. Norwich Castle Museum,
United Kingdom.
Surrealism: Two Private Eyes, the Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1998-1999 A Group of Surrealist Works. The Elkon Gallery, New York
1998-2000 Surrealism in America During the 1930’s and 1940’s: Selections from the Penny
and Elton Yasuna Collection. Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg; David and
Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago; Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Dennis, MA
1998 Julien Levy: Portrait of an Art Gallery. Equitable Gallery, New York
Surrealism Between the Wars. Tate Gallery, London
The Surrealist Vision: Europe and the Americas. Bruce Museum of Arts and
Science, Greenwich, CT.
1996-1997 Surrealist Pillow: An Homage to William Copley. Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
The Inner Eye: Art Beyond the Visible. Touring Exhibition.
Hayward Gallery, London; City Art Galleries, Manchester; Museum and Art Gallery,
Brighton; Glynn Vivien Art Gallery, Swansea; Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
Vision States: Surrealist Prints from the Collection of Gilbert Kaplan. Grunwald Center
for the Graphic Arts at the UCLA Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1996 A Dada and Surrealist Bouquet. Mayor Gallery, London
The Surrealist and Their Friends on Eastern Long Island at Mid-Century. Guild Hall Museum,
East Hampton, N.Y.
Moderate Fable: Homage to Marguerite Young. Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1995-1996 Exploring the Unknown: Surrealism in American Art. Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York
The Body Politic: Surrealism on Both Sides of the Atlantic, 1927-1947.
Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1995 Microcosms: Objects of Knowledge (A University Collects). University Art Museum and
College of Creative Studies Gallery, University of California at Santa Barbara, Calif.
Prints. Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
Paste-up: Past and Present. Kent Gallery, New York
Recent Acquisitions on Paper. National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, D.C.
Surrealism. Nassau County Museum, Roslyn Harbor, NY
1994 American Fantastica. Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, N.Y.
Surrealism: Works on Paper from De Chirico to Pollock. Arnold Herstand and Company, New York
1993 Benefit for the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Le Cadavre Exquis. Drawing Center, New York
1992-1993 Concurrencies. Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
1992 Surrealism Embodied: The Figure in American Art 1933-1953. Michael Rosenfeld, New York
Cadavres, Frottages, Collages, Fumages: Inventions Surrealistes. Isidore Ducasse
Fine Arts, New York
1991 Selections from the Permanent Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1990-1991 Modern Masters IV. Runkel-Hue-Williams Ltd., London
1990 Au Rendez-vous des Amis. Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris
Bijoux d’Artistes. Atelier Hugo, London, Paris
La Belvedere Mandiargues, Artcurial, Paris
El Surrealismo Entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo. Tenerife, Canary Islands
Surrealism: From Paris to New York. Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York
1989-1990 Modern Masters III. Runkel-Hue-Williams, London
1989 25th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Arts. Leo Castelli, New York
I Surrealisti. Palazzo Reale, Milan
1988 Convulsive Beauty: The Impact of Surrealism on American Art. Whitney Museum of
American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, Conn.; Whitney Museum of American Art, Federal
Reserve Plaza, New York
Modern Masters II. Runkel-Hue Williams, London
Venice Biennale
Enduring Creativity. Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Stamford, CT
1987 The Anatomyof Drawing: An Exhibition of Nudes. Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston
Assemblage. Kent Fine Art, New York
1986 38th Academy-Institute Purchase Exhibition. American Academy and Institute of
Arts and Letters, New York
L’Aventure Surrealiste Autour d’Andre Breton. Artcurial Centre d’Art
Plastique Contemporain, Paris
1985-1986 Amerikanische Zeichnungen. Stadtische Galerie and Stdtische Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main
1985 Visitors to Arizona. Phoenix Art Museum
Surrealists. Arnold Herstand Gallery, New York
Cinquanteans de dessins Americains: 1930-1980. L’Ecole nationale superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Lorence Monk Gallery, New York
Surrealist Painting: 1930-1950. Jeffrey Hoffeld Gallery, New York
1984 Kafka. Center National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Surrealism in Chicago Collections. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL.
1981 Tracking the Marvelous. Grey Art Gallery, New York
Galerie Daniel Varenne, Geneva
Art Americaine. Centre National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Le Monde d’Alphonse Chave. Espace Lyonnais d’Art Contemporain, Lyon
1980 Nya Verk: Thea Ekstrom, Andre Masson, Dorothea Tanning. Galerie Bel’Art, Stockholm
1978 Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London
1977 Paris/New York. Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Surrealism and American Art 1931-1947. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
1972 Les Peintres Belges et les Surrealistes. Musee d’Art et Industrie, Saint-Etienne, France
The Surrealist Experience. Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
1971 Les Dix Ans du Point Cardinal. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
1968 Schatten Tresors van het du Surrealisme. Casino Communal, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1966 Kammagraphies. Galerie Nidrecourt, Paris
1965-1966 La Cle des Chants; Arp, Balthus, Brauner, Chirico, Ernst, Klee, Lam, Magritte,
Matta, Miro, Sima, Tanning, Tanguy. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
1964 Hanover Gallery, London
1963-1964 Collages Surrealistes: Arp, Brauner, Dali, Duchamp, Ernst,
Herold, Man Ray, Masson, Matta, Miro, Peverelli, Picabia, Schwitters,
Sophie Taeuber Arp, Tanning. Galerie Le Point Cardinal, Paris
1962 L’Objet. Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Surrealismus: Phantastische Malerei der Gegenwart. Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
1958 Galerie Creuzevault, Paris
Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris
1956 Exposition de Trois Peintres Americains: Max Ernst, Man Ray, Dorothea
Tanning. Musée de Beaux-Arts de Tours
Galerie Nina Dausset, Paris
1954 Artists in Arizona. University of Arizona Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
1954-1968 Salon de mai. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Yearly
1953 Six Artists: Gouaches, Acquarelles, Livres d’Art. Galerie Rene Drouin, Paris.
American Drawings. Tours, France
1951 Surrealist and Abstract Art. The Brooklyn Museum, New York
1948 Summer Exhibition of Contemporary Art. State University of Iowa, Iowa City
Howard Putzel Gallery, New York
The Temptation of St. Anthony. Knoedler Gallery, New York
1947 Surrealisme. Galerie Maeght, Paris
1946 San Francisco Museum of Fine Art Annual.
Bel Ami International Art Competition and Exhibition of Paintings by Eleven American and
European Artists. The American Federation of Arts, Barr Building, Washington, D.C. Juried
by Marcel Duchamp, Alfred H. Barr, and Sidney Janis
1944 Abstract and Surrealist Art in America. Mortimer Brandt Gallery, New York
The Imagery of Chess. Julien Levy Gallery, New York
Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States. Cincinnati Art Museum; Denver Art
Museum; Seattle Art Museum; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art
1943 31 Women. Art of this Century, New York
1941 Directions in American Painting. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1937 De Young Museum Annual. De Young Museum, San Francisco

ARTIST’S BOOKS:
1993 James Merrill. Nine Lives. New York: Nadja Press. Cover drawing by the artist.
1989-1992 James Merrill. Volcanic Holiday. New York: Peter Hooten Editions. Eight
color etchings by the artist.
1986 Dorothea Tanning. Birthday. San Francisco: Lapis Press. Subsequent editions in
French (Paris: Christian Bourgois), Swedish (Stockholm: Trevi), German (Cologne:
Kiepenheuer & Witsch), and Japanese (Tokyo: Saikisha Editions)..
1985 Stephen Yenser. Clos Camardon. New York: Seacliff Editions. Frontispiece lithograph by the artist.
1978 Jean Cassou. 22 Poems. St. Gall, Switzerland: Edition Ercker. One lithogrph by the artist.
1976 Bonjour Max Ernst. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. Album with one color etching by the artist.
La mysticite charnelle de Rene Crevel. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. One color
etching by the artist.
1975 Dorothea Tanning. Oiseaux en peril. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. With eight color
etchings by Max Ernst.
1973 Dorothea Tanning. En chair et en or. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. Ten color etchings
and ten poems by the artist.
1972 Judith. Paris: Manus Press. Album with six color lithographs by the artist.
1971 Hommage a Marcel Duchamp. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. Album with one etching by the artist.
Dorothea Tanning. Ouvre-toi. Milan: Galerie Alexandre Iolas. Nine lithographic
reproductions and text by the artist.
1970 Andre Pieyre de mandiargues. La Maree. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. Fifteen color
etchings by the artist.
1969 Dorothea Tanning. Exhibition catalogue. Geneva: Galerie Alexandre Iolas. Five lithogrphas by the artist.
1964 Dorothea Tanning. Demain. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. Poem and five color etchings by the artist.
1962 Lena Leclercq. Personne. Paris: Editions Georges Visat. Nine color etchings by the artist.
1961 G. Luca. L’extreme occidental. Paris: Editions Meyer. Frontpiece by the artist.
1959 Rene Crevel. Accueil. Paris: Editions Jean Hugues. Fifteen color etchings by the artist.
Alain Bosquet. Parloes peintes. Paris: Editions Galerie Diderot. Two etchings by the artist.
1950 Almanac Surrealist. Paris: Saggitaire. Three ink drawings by the artist.
Les sept perils spectraux. Paris: Galerie Les Pas Perdus. Album of seven color
lithographs by the artist.
1944 Ramon Sartoris. Three Plays. New York: Black Sun Press. Pencil drawings by the artist.

BOOKS AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES:
2005 Howard, Richard and Charles Stuckey. Dorothea Tanning: Insomnias 1955–1965.
New York: Kent Gallery.
1993 Buck, Louisa. Dorothea Tanning. London: Camden Arts Center.
Dorothea Tanning: Om Konst Kunde Tala (If Art Could Talk). Retrospective
exhibition catalogue. Malmo, Sweden: Malmo Catalogue of the Dorothea Tanning
retrospective exhibition. Texts by Sune Nordgren, John Russell, Alain Jouffroy, Sweden.
1992 Kuspit, Donald. The Amorphousness of Being Other, for Hail
Delirium. New York: New York Public Library. A retrospective of Dorothea Tanning’s prints.
1991 Trotter, Ruth. For Dorothea Tanning: Consequences on Paper. Sedona: Sedona Museum of Art.
1990 Morgan, Robert C. Dorothea Tanning: Messages. New York: Nahan Contemporary Gallery.
1989 Wilson, Sarah. Dorothea Tanning: Between Lives: Works on Paper. London: Runkle-Hue Williams.
1988 Julten, Pontus, “Eleven Paintings by Dorothea Tanning.” In Cage, John, 8 Mesostics
for Dorothea. New York, Kent Fine Art.
1987 Kuspit, Donald. Dorothea Tanning, On Paper. New York: Kent Fine Art.
1979 Dorothea Tanning. 10 Recent Paintings and a Biography. New York: Gimple-Weitzenhoffer Gallery.
1977 Dorothea Taning: Numero Special de XXe Siècle. Paris: Editions XXe Siècle.
Texts by Daniel Abadie, Sarane Alexandrian, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Jacques Baron,
Andre Breton, Roland Busselen, John Cage, Jean Cassou, Eleanor Clark,
Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duhamel, Max Ernst, Pierre Hebey, Pontus Hulten,
Constantine Jelenski, Alain Jouffroy, Robert Lebel, James Lord, Andre Pieyre
De Mandiargues, Andre Masson, Joan Miro, Robert Penn Warren, Roland Penrose,
John Russell, Jean Tardieu, and Patrick Waldberg, Lithographs by André
Masson, Matta, and Joan Miro.
1976 Plazy, Giles. Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Editions Filipacchi.
1975 Hulten, Pontus. Dorothea Tanning. Stockholm: Galerie Bel’Art.
1974 Jouffroy, Alain. Dorothea Tanning: Oeuvre. Paris: Centre National d’Art Contemporain. Catalogue
for retrospective exhibition.
1967 Waldberg, Patrick. “Dorothea Tanning et les enfants de la nuit.” In Dorothea Tanning.
Retrospective exhibition catalogue. Brussels: André de Rache (for the XXe Festival Belge d’Ete).
1966 Bosquet, Alain. La Peinture de Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Jean-Jacques Pauvert.
Lebel, Robert. Prose pour Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Galerie Le Point Cardinal.
1963 Leclercq, Lena. Poemes pour Dorothea, for Dorothea Tanning Bilder Gouaches
zeichnungen 1957-1963. Cologne:
Galerie der Spiegel.
1962 Bosquet, Alain. Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Galerie mouradian et Vallotton.
1961 Arp, Jean. Jeux des epis d’or for Dorothea Tanning, dessins. Paris: Galerie Le Point Cardinal.
Carluccio, Luigi. Dorothea Tanning. Turin: Galerie Galatea.
1954 Bertele, Rene. Dorothea Tanning. Paris: Galerie Fursetenberg. Poems by
Jean-Louis Bedouin and Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues.
1944 Ernst, Max. Paintings by Dorothea Tanning. New York: Julien Levy Gallery.


THEATER AND FILMS:
Theater
1961 Judith. Theatre de France, Paris. Play by Jean Giraudoux, directed by
Jean Louis Barrault. Costumes by the artist.
1953 Will o’ the Wisp. New York City Ballet, New York. Choreography by Ruthanna Boris.
Sets and costumes by the artist.
1952 Bayou. New York City Ballet, New York. Choreography by George Balanchine,
music by Virgil Thomson. Sets and costumes by the artist.
1950 The Witch. Sadlers Wells with the New York City Ballet, Covent Garden, London.
Choreography by John Cranko. Sets and costumes by the artist.
1946 The Night Shadow. Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo, New York. Choreography by
George Balanchine, music by Vittorio Rieti. Sets and Costumes by the artist.

Films
1978 Insomnias, The Art of Dorothea Tanning. A film by Peter Schamoni, Argos Films, Paris
and Munich. Grand Prize for Direction, Festival International du Film d’Art, Palmares, 1981.
1959 Dorothea Tanning: Le Regard Edloui (The Astonished Gaze). A film by Jean
Desvilles, Les Productions Tanit, Paris.
1956 8 x 8. Film by Hans Richter. Performance by the artist.
1944 Dreams That Money Can Buy. Film by Hans Richter. Performance by the artist.


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
The Art Institute of Chicago
Princeton University Art Museum
Yale University Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California at Santa Barbara
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
The Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, Glasgow
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
New Orleans Museum of Art
The New York Public Library, New York
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Tate Modern, London
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tuscon
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Robert M. Woodruff Arts Center
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

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