I stumbled upon this book while looking for another
and ordered it from the title alone:
"In Wonderland:
The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists
in Mexico and the United States".
I was not disappointed!
I highly recommend it.
Here are just a
few of my favorite images from it:
Dorothea Tanning
"Birthday"
1942
Louise Boureois
"Femme Maison"
1946-47
Rosa Rolanda
"Self-Portrait Photogram"
c. late 1920s
Helen Lundeberg
"Plant and Animal Analogies"
1934-35
Helen Lundeberg
"Double Portrait of the Artist in Time"
1935
Yoyoi Kusama
"The Anatomic Explosion Happening
at Statue of Alice in Wonderland"
Central Park, NYC
1969
Frida Kahlo
"What the Water Gave Me"
1938
Gertrude Abercrombie
"The Courtship"
1949
I was lucky enough to have found
a sweet little painting by Gertrude
at a county auction....
Adeline Kent
"Dark Mountain"
1944
Yoyoi Kusama
"Accumulation"
1962-64
Helen Lundeberg
"Self-Portrait (with Landscape)"
1944
L.e.e M.i.l.l.e.r
"Solarized Portrait of Dorothy Hill (Profile)"
1932
Dorothea Tanning
"Xmas"
1969
Remedios Varo
"Creation of the Birds"
1958
Francesca Woodman
"Self-portrait talking to Vince, Providence, Rhode Island"
1975-78
Adeline Kent
"Finder"
1953
Adeline Kent's Studio
San Francisco
1950s
Bridget Tichenor
"Los Encarcelados"
1965
L.e.e M.i.l.l.e.r
"Women with Fire masks"
1941
Kati Horna
From the series
"Ode to Necrophilia"
1962
Cortney Andrews
"Eros & Thanatos"
2008
Dorothea Tanning
"Rainy Day Canapé"
1970
Francesca Woodman
"Untitled, Rome, Italy"
1977-78
All images from the book:
If you live in LA
I hope you went to see it at
I did. I think I went three times.
ReplyDeleteHey, you tease! Show us your Gertrude Abercrombie (assuming you still have it).
ReplyDeleteWill do! I'll never sell it, too good and weird.....
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