12.17.2012

surrealist women artists

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

3 comments:

  1. I did. I think I went three times.

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  2. Hey, you tease! Show us your Gertrude Abercrombie (assuming you still have it).

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    1. Will do! I'll never sell it, too good and weird.....

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