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Dorothea Tanning Passes Away
A world renown artist and Galesburg native died of natural causes inside her New York City home at the age of 101 Tuesday.

Dothea Tanning attended Knox College, and received an honorary degree in 1988. It was then Knox Professor Robin Metz met her for the first time.

According to Metz, she achieved on a global scale in so many fields. He tells WGIL that's why he hopes Tanning's 'Knox-Galesburg' connection is continuously taught.

"Painting and sculpture and her prose books and her poetry, and her design for theatre and for dance. Her fame in any one of those fields would have been exceptional," Metz said. "The fact that she had worldwide acclaim in that whole variety of endeavors is really astonishing."

Tanning was honored last summer in Galesburg with a festival commemorating her works. Plans have stalled in making it an annual event, but Metz feels those conversations will come to life again.

Even for Tanning's old age, the professor says she was energetic, generous, and still, inspiring.

A plaque dedicated to Tanning can be found outside her childhood home on Hawkinson Street.


(Dorothea Tanning in 1988. Photo courtesy Knox College.)
02 03 12 by Newsroom
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