surrealist women artists
I stumbled upon this book while looking for anotherand 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"1942Louise Boureois"Femme Maison"1946-47Rosa Rolanda"Self-Portrait Photogram"c. late 1920sHelen Lundeberg"Plant and Animal Analogies"1934-35Helen Lundeberg"Double Portrait of the Artist in Time"1935Yoyoi Kusama"The Anatomic Explosion Happening at Statue of Alice in Wonderland"Central Park, NYC1969Frida Kahlo"What the Water Gave Me"1938Gertrude Abercrombie"The Courtship"1949I was lucky enough to have found a sweet little painting by Gertrude at a county auction....Adeline Kent"Dark Mountain"1944Yoyoi Kusama"Accumulation"1962-64Helen Lundeberg"Self-Portrait (with Landscape)"1944L.e.e M.i.l.l.e.r"Solarized Portrait of Dorothy Hill (Profile)"1932Dorothea Tanning"Xmas"1969Remedios Varo"Creation of the Birds"1958Francesca Woodman"Self-portrait talking to Vince, Providence, Rhode Island"1975-78Adeline Kent"Finder"1953 Adeline Kent's StudioSan Francisco1950sBridget Tichenor"Los Encarcelados"1965L.e.e M.i.l.l.e.r"Women with Fire masks"1941Kati HornaFrom the series "Ode to Necrophilia"1962Cortney Andrews"Eros & Thanatos"2008Dorothea Tanning"Rainy Day Canapé"1970Francesca Woodman"Untitled, Rome, Italy"1977-78 All images from the book:"In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the UnitedStates"If you live in LA I hope you went to see it atLACMA