Artist: Kay Sage (1898 - 1963)
Nationality: American
Movement: Surrealism
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Kay Sage was born into a wealthy family and spent the majority of her life in Italy. From 1925 to 1935, she was married to an Italian prince. In 1937, she moved to Paris, meeting Yves Tanguy two years later. The two moved to the United States in 1940 and were married not long after. Her Surrealist paintings were inspired by the work of Giorgio de Chirico. Back in America, she began incorporating architectural themes into her work. In addition to painting, she worked in mixed media and wrote poetry. After Tanguy’s sudden death in 1955, Sage became mentally ill and committed suicide in 1963.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (30)
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Kay Sage, The Hidden Letter, 1943
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Kay Sage, Starlings, Caravans, 1948
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Cadwallader Washburn, Ten Thousand Years of Sage, 1926
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Cadwallader Washburn, Sage Brush and Canyon (Arizona Series I), 1917
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Jean Michel Moreau the Younger, Memnon Ou L"Ecoeuil Du Sage, 18th - 19th century
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Norman Orr, Bill Graham Presents (271) New Riders of the Purple Sage; Boz Scaggs, Fillmore West, 2/25-28/71, 1971
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D. Huot, Portrai du Sage, page 72 of the book, Mon passe-tems dÈdiÈ ý moi-mÍme , vol.2, circa 1811 - 1813
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Jean Baptiste Simonet, Que je vous plains! vous allez etre sage . . . from Le Cadenas, 18th - 19th century
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D. Huot, La mode est la flÈau de l"homme sage, et l"idole des fous, page 119 of the book, Mon passe-tems dÈdiÈ ý moi-mÍme , vol.1, circa 1811 - 1813
Museum of Fine Arts -
Probably New England Glass Company Urn with cover United States, Massachusetts, (East Cambridge), about 1830
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Kay Sage - Tomorrow, For Example 1951 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Myles Birket Foster, "But hail, thou goddess sage and holy..", first etching for the poem Il Penseroso, which is illustration 20 on page 14 in the book Milton"s L*Allegro and Il Penseroso, Illustrated with Etchings on Steel by Birket Foster (London: W.
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Kay Sage - Margin of Silence 1942 oil on canvas Albany Institute of History and Art American
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Marked by John Hugh Le Sage, free 1718 Two-Handled Cup and Cover drinking vessel London,
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Joseph Meeks & Sons, Parlor table oval, circa 1860
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Table, Bureau, ca. 1765 Attributed to John Townsend (1732-1809)American; Made in New England, Newport, Rhode
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Portrait of the Artist, 1878 Mary Cassatt (1844-1926)AmericanGouache on wove paper laid down to buff-colored
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Portrait of Joseph Roulin
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: artist unknown Title: Parinirvana Date: mid 19th century Medium: ink and color on silk
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Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan, 1190-1235 Scholar with Attendants under a Tree Round fan mounted
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Chest, 1660-1680 Attributed to William Searle (1634-1667); or Thomas Dennis (1638-1706)American; Made in New England,
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Desk and bookcase, ca. 1811 American; Made in South, Baltimore, Maryland, AmericaMahogany, satinwood, maple, eglomise
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Solon before Croesus
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Formerly attributed to Ma Yuan, 1190-1235 A Solitary Poet by a Lakeside Round fan mounted
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Cylinder seal Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian Neo-Assyrian Period, 883–612 B.C. Persia Chalcedony | Pale pink
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The God Shiva with his Wife Parvati (Uma-Maheshvara) Indian Central India, northwestern Madhya Pradesh, about
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Table, pier, ca. 1810-1815 Made by Joseph B. Barry and Son (1757-1838)American; Made in Mid-Atlantic,
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Table, library, 1882 Made by Herter Brothers (1864-1906)American; Made in Mid-Atlantic, New York, New York,
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View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm—The Oxbow, 1836 Thomas Cole (born England,
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Death of the Historical Buddha (Nehan-zu), Kamakura period (1185-1333), 14th century Kyoto, JapanHanging scroll; ink,

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (8)
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ZONE: Chelsea, Center for the Arts: Molly Davies: Retrospective of Video Installation Works
Ms. Davies work explores movement of the performing body and film, distilling the everyday to suggest undercurrents of desire, isolation and joy.  Juxtaposing images to create layers of meaning, her work immerses the viewer into striking, poetic w...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
National Academy: Surrealism USA: Between 1930 and 1950
One of the most revolutionary artistic and intellectual movements of the twentieth century, Surrealism still exerts a strong appeal today, more than fifty years after its heyday. The profound influence that this world of fantasy and dream had on a...
New Mexico Photography Field School: Call to Artists: Photographing Ghost Town - A Black-and-White Darkroom and Field Photography Workshop
Once home to artist Georgia O’Keeffe, Ghost Ranch is over 22,000 acres of sand and sage, plains and mesas, clouds and shadows. To photograph Ghost Ranch calls for the combination of the technical and the aesthetic. Through directed and undirecte...
Tate Gallery: Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites
Ruskin was born in London on 8 February 1819 and died at his Lake District house Brantwood, Coniston on 20 January 1900. He was the only child of a prosperous sherry merchant who was able to ...
Menil Collection: Yves Tanguy Retrospective
Tanguy succeeded, more than any other Surrealist painter, in creating a tangible but inexplicable reality of the unreal atmospher...
Art|31|Basel: Art Basel: the El Dorado of the art world
In June, art collectors, gallery owners, artists, curators and art lovers from all over the world will meet at Art Basel for the 31st time. This is the largest and most important fair for modern and contemporary art. Its reputation is based on the...
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens: Lure of the West: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
First explorers and trappers, then settlers and immigrants were drawn to the lands and opportunities for a new life in the American West, said Elizabeth Broun, director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Artists were quick to discover new...

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