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Dorothea Tanning, painter, sculptor, and poet noted for Surrealist style, 101

By Grace Glueck

 |  New York Times  

  February 03, 2012

NEW YORK - Dorothea Tanning, a leading Surrealist painter of the 1930s whose path had led her from the small town of Galesburg, Ill., to a whirlwind life in the international art world, died Tuesday at her home in Manhattan. She was 101.

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