Kay Sage (1898-1963)
Margin of Silence
Oil on canvas, 1942
AIHA Collection

Born in Albany, Sage attended art classes in Washington, but it was not until 1918 when she went to live in Rome that she began to study art seriously. In 1937 she moved to Paris and met Yves Tanguy whose painting she greatly admired. She began painting in the Surrealist style, influenced by the works by DeChirico, Dali and Tanguy, whom she married in 1940.

By the early 1940s, Sage had moved away from biomorphism and established her own vocabulary of "sharp, spiny forms," covered by rigid draperies, sometimes suggesting figurative shapes beneath.

Ariaantie Coeymans Verplanck

by Nehemia Partridge

A Sculptor's Studio

by Tompkins H. Matteson

The Fondey Family

by Ezra Ames

Still Life: Fruit in a Classical Setting

by John Vanderlyn, Jr.

The Fist

by Alice Morgan Wright

Margin of Silence

by Kay Sage

Thoroughbreds

by Walter L. Greene

Bust of Young Girl

by Charles Calverley

Library at Arbor Hill (Olcott Interior)

by Walter Launt Palmer

Emma Turner Banks

by Charles Loring Elliot