Life & Work Timeline

1944

Illustration for Ramon Sartoris’s If Caesar Be

Illustration for Ramon Sartoris’s The Clue of the Wrong Thing

Illustration for Ramon Sartoris’s From Core to Rind

The Civilizing Influence

Endgame

1945

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Summer in Amagansett, Long Island. A nuclear bomb is dropped on Hiroshima, another on Nagasaki. End of war. Dorothea Tanning meets George Balanchine who asks her to design a forthcoming ballet The Night Shadow. Works on ballet sets and costumes until November when she is stricken with encephalitis. By the end of the year she is recovering enough to finish the designs.

Chess Tournament at Julien Levy Gallery, January 6, 1945

Dorothea Tanning, Amagansett, New York

Beautiful Girl

The Truth About Comets

Dorothea Tanning, press photo for solo exhibition at Caresse Crosby Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Cover Design for the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo Souvenir Program, 1945-46 season, featuring The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine

Poet, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine

The Sleepwalker, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine

Set design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine

A Guest, costume design for The Night Shadow, a ballet by George Balanchine

Oh, Dorothea Tanning!

Dorothea Tanning and Max Ernst, New York, performing in Hans Richter's film Dreams That Money Can Buy

1946

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February. Dorothea Tanning returns to Arizona. From there she learns that The Night Shadow is premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House (Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo) to much acclaim. October 24th. Marriage with Max Ernst in double ceremony with Man Ray and Juliet Brouner in Beverly Hills. Meanwhile Sedona visitors, Marcel Duchamp, George Balanchine with wife Tanaquil Leclercq, Roland Penrose, Lee Miller, Caresse Crosby.