Exhibition Souvenirs

This picture marked an early turning point for Tanning, who was coming into her own as a member of the Surrealist group in New York. Birthday depicts the artist as both a flesh-and-blood individual and a guide to an imaginary realm. Tanning creates the...

This picture marked an early turning point for Tanning, who was coming into her own as a member of the Surrealist group in New York. Birthday depicts the artist as both a flesh-and-blood individual and a guide to an imaginary realm. Tanning creates the...

This picture marked an early turning point for Tanning, who was coming into her own as a member of the Surrealist group in New York. Birthday depicts the artist as both a flesh-and-blood individual and a guide to an imaginary realm. Tanning creates the...

Like many of his fellow Surrealists, Joan Miró utilized an eclectic mix of unorthodox strategies as fuel for his creative process. This painting, in spite of its large scale and nature-derived shapes, was based on a collage that the artist made by...

A very spare and simple treatment makes this setting of the artist’s family farm in his Spanish home village appear mysterious and imaginary. Miró’s preparatory sketch for this work had an extra dimension of quirkiness: the dog’s “bow wow” written out in...

In Fish Magic, Paul Klee creates a magical realm where the aquatic, the celestial, and the earthly intermingle. A delicate black surface covers an underlayer of colors, which the artist revealed by scratching and scrawling designs in the black paint. At...

In his Manifesto of Surrealism of 1924, André Breton celebrated the unbridled imagination as the key to freedom in all aspects of life. Artists responded by inventing a wide variety of new expressive forms designed to stir up the human capacity for...