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Dorothea Tanning

1910 - 2012

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Dorothea Margaret Tanning (25 August 1910 – 31 January 2012) was an American painter, printmaker, sculptor, writer, and poet. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothea Tanning has received more than 461,180 page views. Her biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Dorothea Tanning is the 804th most popular painter (down from 730th in 2019), the 2,625th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,507th in 2019) and the 27th most popular American Painter.

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  • 55.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.17

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.20

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Dorothea Tanning ranks 804 out of 2,023. Before her are Heinrich Aldegrever, Andrea Appiani, Jan Fyt, Wen Zhengming, Jan Kupecký, and Alvise Vivarini. After her are Jacques Villon, Philip de László, Kurt Westergaard, Konstantin Korovin, Pieter Jansz. Saenredam, and Frans Floris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1910, Dorothea Tanning ranks 105. Before her are Enrique Guaita, Pascoal Ranieri Mazzilli, Ngô Đình Nhu, Nouhak Phoumsavanh, Maria Cebotari, and Heinz Hoffmann. After her are Sylvia Sidney, Rudolf Kempe, Ramaswamy Venkataraman, Félix Candela, Ruan Lingyu, and Lothar Collatz. Among people deceased in 2012, Dorothea Tanning ranks 113. Before her are Svetozar Gligorić, Bal Thackeray, Sergio Pininfarina, Kaneto Shindo, Edoardo Mangiarotti, and Malam Bacai Sanhá. After her are Wilhelm Brasse, Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Alexander Arutiunian, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Angelo Dundee, and Jack Tramiel.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothea Tanning ranks 2,625 out of 20,380. Before her are Marvin Harris (1927), Eleanor F. Helin (1932), Lew Ayres (1908), Drew Barrymore (1975), A. E. Waite (1857), and John Grinder (1940). After her are Walter Tevis (1928), J. T. Walsh (1943), James M. Cain (1892), Gertrude Ederle (1905), Henry Flagler (1830), and Susan Sullivan (1942).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Dorothea Tanning ranks 27. Before her are Thomas Eakins (1844), Cy Twombly (1928), Julian Schnabel (1951), Bruce Nauman (1941), Donald Judd (1928), and Cindy Sherman (1954). After her are Asher Brown Durand (1796), Andrew Wyeth (1917), Helen Frankenthaler (1928), Beatrice Wood (1893), Henry Hill (1943), and Gutzon Borglum (1867).

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