assure you, we never, never talked art. Never." "If it wasn’t known that I had been a Surrealist, I don’t think it would be evident in what I’m doing now. But I’m branded as a Surrealist. Tant pis." "Women artists. There is no such thing—or person. It’s just as much a contradiction in terms as "man artist" or "elephant artist". You may be a woman and you may be an artist; but the one is a given and the other is you." "Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity." Public collections Centre Georges Pompidou / Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, New Hampshire Los Angeles County Museum of Art The Menil Collection, Houston Moderna Museet, Stockholm Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Museum of Modern Art, New York Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri Philadelphia Museum of Art San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Tate Modern, London Whitney Museum of American Art, New York See also List of centenarians (artists) Visionary art Magic realism Women Surrealists References External links Dorthea Tanning on Wikiart.org Dorothea Tanning official website Dorothea Tanning on artnet Monographs Examples of paintings 1978-1997 Ten Dreams Galleries Academy of American Poets 1910 births 2012 deaths American centenarians American women painters American surrealist artists Knox College (Illinois) alumni Modern artists People from Galesburg, Illinois Artists from New York City Women surrealist artists American women sculptors American women printmakers 20th-century American women artists 20th-century American printmakers Max Ernst Sculptors from New York (state) Women centenarians Surrealist artists