"Dorothea Tanning" is on view at James Cope Gallery in Dallas through October 17, 2026.  The exhibition focuses on the artist's late works in watercolor and collage, including Reckless (1989).

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (MHCAM) in South Hadley, Massachusetts reopens to the public on September 8, 2026 with MHCAM at 150: Our New Collection Galleries. Following the Museum's full renovation, the reinstallation of the permanent collection aims to honor its 150-year history while advancing a more expansive and inclusive vision of art history, and includes the painting Still in the Studio (1979).

The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art's "Surrealism: Picturing the Strange” celebrates the the museum's collection of Surrealist works, on view in Edinburgh through December 1, 2026.  The installation includes the scultpure Primitive Seating (1982) and the painting Tableau vivant (Living Picture) (1954).

"Endless Sunday: Maurizio Cattelan & The Centre Pompidou Collection" is on view at Centre Pompidou-Metz through February 2, 2027. Celebrating the site's 15th anniversary, the exhibition places pieces from the collection of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in dialogue with the work of Maurizio Cattelan. With an organizational structure based on the alphabet and references to poetry, film, and literature, the show features painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, installation, video, and film, and includes the sculpture De quel amour (By What Love) (1969).

"International Surrealism from Tate: Fifty Years of Dreams" will be on view at The Baker Museum in Naples, Florida, October 17, 2026 - February 14, 2027.. The exhibition draws from the collection of the Tate Modern in London, and includes a range of paintings, photographs, and sculptures by the hand of the movement's luminaries as well as artists whose affinities have been less widely recognized. The installation features the painting Eine Kleine Nachmusik (1943).

"Surréelles: De Leonor Fini à Hélène Delprat, une autre traversée du surréalisme" will be open at the Musée d’Arts de Nantes from November 20, 2026 through March 21, 2027. With an expansive view of Surrealism as an enduring practice of liberating the uncounsioucs through creative means, this exhibition presents works by women artists in all media from the 1920s through the present day.  Drawing largely from the museum's permanent collection, it will feature lithographs in the portfolio Les 7 périls spectraux (1950).

Amy Lyford's Exquisite Dreams: The Art and Life Dorothea Tanning (Reaktion Books, 2024) focuses on key examples of Tanning's work in various media from her early Surrealist imagery through her late-career paintings. By discussing them in relation to concurrent topics of 20th-century art, society, and popular culture, and highlighting the artist's own ideas about ways to view her art, including a satirical, fantasy-based, documentary-style film about her paintings, Lyford examines Tanning's singular approach to creating a rich visual experience for the viewer.

Victoria Carruthers' monograph Dorothea Tanning: Transformations (Lund Humphries, 2020) surveys the range and depth of the arist's work and her enduring thematic preoccupations in the context of her the artist's life and career. This essential study is extensively illustrated and features material from interviews that the author conducted with Tanning between 2000 and 2009. Carruthers discusses the book in an interview found here.

We are looking for information about a number of paintings in the effort to fully document Dorothea Tanning's work for a catalogue raisonné. If you have seen any of these paintings, please contact us.

Concerning Wishes (1942)

Le Petit Marquis (1947)

Angel in Mauve and Orange (Study for Anges gardiens) (1947)

Les Infatigables (The Indefatigables) (1965)