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Gertrude Abercrombie (1909–1977), Chicago artist inspired by the surrealists, who became prominent in the 1930s and 1940s. She was also involved with the
jazz music scene and was friends with musicians such as
Dizzy Gillespie,
Charlie Parker, and
Sarah Vaughan. •
Marion Adnams (1898–1995), English painter, printmaker, and draughtswoman, notable for her
surrealist paintings. •
Eileen Forrester Agar (1899–1991), born in Argentina and moved to Britain in childhood. She was prominent among British surrealists; Agar made intricate collages and paintings of abstract organic shapes. •
Rachel Baes (1912–1983), Belgian painter, who from 1929 onwards was a member of the surrealist group around
René Magritte. •
Fanny Brennan (1921–2001), painter; grew up in the world of art spending time with
Gerald and Sara Murphy and
Pablo Picasso. She was featured in two shows in 1941 in the Wakefield Bookshop gallery. As well as she had three solo exhibits in 1973 and a book published of her work in 1990. •
Emmy Bridgwater (1906–1999), English artist and poet associated with the
surrealist movement. •
Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), British-born Mexican surrealist painter. She met the surrealist
Max Ernst in 1937, and had a painful and complicated relationship with him. Much of her work is autobiographical. •
Rita Kernn-Larsen (1904–1998), Danish painter. •
Greta Knutson (1899–1983), Swedish artist and writer who pursued surrealism while married to
Tristan Tzara in the 1930s. •
Jacqueline Lamba (1910–1993), French painter, married (1934–1943) to
André Breton. •
Maruja Mallo (1902–1995), Galician Spanish avant-garde artist whose painting in the 1930s was influenced by surrealism. •
Margaret Modlin (1927–1998), American surrealist painter, sculptor and photographer who spent most of her adult life in Spain. •
Grace Pailthorpe (1883–1971), British surrealist painter, surgeon, and psychology researcher. •
Alice Rahon (1904–1987), French/Mexican poet and artist. Her work contributed to the beginning of
Abstract Expressionism in Mexico. •
Edith Rimmington (1902–1986), British artist and photographer •
Penelope Rosemont (born 1942), writer and painter joined the surrealist group in Paris, 1965 and met Andre Breton. In Chicago she and her friends organized an active surrealist group linked with the Breton group. Her painting was shown in the 1986 Venice Biennale. •
Kay Sage (1898–1963), began painting surrealist landscapes in the late 1930s, met and married fellow surrealist
Yves Tanguy in 1940. •
Ángeles Santos Torroella (1911–2013), Catalan-Spanish painter with an interesting surrealist early stage. •
Eva Švankmajerová (1940–2005), Czech painter, ceramicist and writer. She collaborated with her husband
Jan Švankmajer on films such as
Alice,
Faust and
Conspirators of Pleasure. •
Dorothea Tanning (1910–2012), American painter, sculptor, printmaker, writer, and poet, whose early work was influenced by surrealism. She became part of the circle of surrealists in New York in the 1940s, and was married to fellow surrealist
Max Ernst for 30 years. •
Bridget Bate Tichenor (1917–1990), born in Paris and of British descent, she later embraced Mexico as her home. Surrealist painter of
fantastic art in the school of
magic realism and a fashion editor. •
Toyen (1902–1980),
Czech painter, draftsperson and illustrator and a member of the
surrealist movement. •
Remedios Varo (1908–1963), Catalan-Spanish surrealist painter who moved to Mexico, she was known for her dreamlike paintings of scientific apparatus. She was married to the surrealist poet
Benjamin Peret. == Sculptors ==