Dorothea Tanning

How artists from Édouard Vuillard to Dorothea Tanning and Kehinde Wiley used wallpaper in their work 

‘I could sit among the velvet blackness forever’

Tanning gives full expression to her childhood imagination and its innately eclectic catalogue of fears, fantasies and domestic psychodramas

The current appetite for historical, underrecognized female artists is welcome but urgent work still needs to be done