Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works... Read full biography
Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a style reminiscent of Salvadore Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive,... Read full biography
Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a style reminiscent of Salvadore Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring strange landscapes in which amorphous objects proliferate in a haunted dream world. His paintings often had indefinable inhabitants, casting long shadows across a landscape, in a meticulously... Read full biography
Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a style reminiscent of Salvadore Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring strange landscapes in which amorphous objects proliferate in a haunted dream world. His paintings often had indefinable inhabitants, casting long shadows across a landscape, in a meticulously detailed style that bridged realism and abstraction. The son of a sea captain, he spent his childhood in Paris and in Brittany where the landscape with its empty plateaus, grey skies and dried bones made a great impression upon him. He also spent many... Read full biography
Born in Paris, Yves Tanguy became one of the leading artists of a movement called Surrealism, depictions that suggested other-worldliness and eerie circumstances. Tanguy's most characteristic works are painted in a style reminiscent of Salvadore Dalí, but his imagery is highly distinctive, featuring strange landscapes in which amorphous objects proliferate in a haunted dream world. His paintings often had indefinable inhabitants, casting long shadows across a landscape, in a meticulously detailed style that bridged realism and abstraction. The son of a sea captain, he spent his childhood in Paris and in Brittany where the landscape with its empty plateaus, grey skies and dried bones made a great impression upon him. He also spent many hours watching a local painter at work. In 1918, he joined the Merchant Marines and traveled to South America, Africa, and England. He served in the... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (85)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Surrealist Art The Bergman Collection (Exhibition catalog)
1997
Ades, Dawn
262 pages (color)
Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996
Barbara and Peter Toohil
363 pages (color)
Investigating Modern Art
1996
Dawtry, Liz (others)
185 pages (color)
American Paintings Before 1945 in the Wadsworth Atheneum (2 Vols)
1996
Kornhauser, Elizabeth Mankin
877 pages (color)
The Art Institute of Chicago Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture
1996
Wood, James N/T Edelstein
160 pages (color)
Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being
1995
Fineberg, Jonathan
496 pages (color)
A Boatload of Madmen Surrealism and American Avant-Garde 1920-1950
1995
Tashjian, Dickran
424 pages
The Avant-Garde in Exhibition New Art in the 20th Century (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Altshuler, Bruce
288 pages (color)
Abstract Expressionism and the Modern Experience
1991
Polcari, Stephen
408 pages (color)
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art
1990
Stich, Sidra
295 pages (color)
Reported Sightings Art Chronicles
1989
Ashbery, John
419 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Paintings (in the) Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
1989
Fresella-Lee, Nancy
222 pages (color)
Twentieth Century Watercolors
1988
Finch, Christopher
310 pages (color)
A Concise History of Modern Painting
1988
Read, Herbert
418 pages (color)
American Drawings and Watercolors from the Wadsworth Atheneum
1987
Barter, Judith A; Eugene R. Gaddis (Intro)
94 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Varieties of Visual Experience (3rd edition)
1987
Feldman, Edmund Burke
528 pages (color)
The Interpretive Link Abstract Surrealism into Abstract Expression (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Newport Harbor Art Museum
201 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Arizona Collects Twentieth Century Painting (Exhibition catalog)
1986
Deeds, Daphne Anderson
64 pages
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
In the Mind's Eye Dada and Surrealism (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Neff, Ann R (editor)
240 pages (color)
Movements in Art since 1945 New Revised Edition
1984
Lucie-Smith, Edward
288 pages (color)
World Artists 1950-1980
1984
Marks, Claude
912 pages
California Museums The Los Angeles Times Book of
1984
Wilson, William
288 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)