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Kay Sage

Kay Sage (1898 - 1963) was active/lived in New York, Connecticut / Italy, France.  Kay Sage is known for Surreal, symbolist and dream image painting, sculpture.

Exhibition Review,
"Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future"
April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone
  

Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was America’s great painter of menace, dread, and the post-apocalyptic future. Her trademark was “the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm,” observed biographer Régine Tessier. Like a thunderstorm, Sage’s art could be depressing and exhilarating. A true contrarian might nominate Sage as the best of all the Western Hemisphere surrealists. Frida, move over?

Born in Albany, Sage had one of her first gallery shows in Los Angeles, at the Tone Price gallery in 1940. Despite that, no Sage paintings have made their way into local museum collections. That’s remedied temporarily by LACMA’s “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States,” which contains a mini-Sage retrospective. That alone is reason to see “In Wonderland”   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5988 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Kay Sage

   Kay Sage  Born:  1898 - Albany, New York
Died:   1963 - Woodbury, Connecticut
Known for:  Surreal, symbolist and dream image painting, sculpture
Name variants:  Katherine Lynn (Sage) Tanguy, Kay (Sage) Tanguy

Exhibition Review,
"Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future"
April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone
  

Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was America’s great painter of menace, dread, and the post-apocalyptic future. Her trademark was “the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm,” observed biographer Régine Tessier. Like a thunderstorm, Sage’s art could be depressing and exhilarating. A true contrarian might nominate Sage as the best of all the Western Hemisphere surrealists. Frida, move over?

Born in Albany, Sage had one of her first gallery shows in Los Angeles, at the Tone Price gallery in 1940. Despite that, no Sage paintings have made their way into  ...  Displaying 750 of 5988 characters.

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