Kay Sage

Life Dates1898 – 1963

Kay Sage (b. 1898, Albany,NY/d. 1963, Woodbury, CT), a Surrealist active in Paris in the mid to late 1930s; she married Yves Tanguy in 1940 and moved with him to Woodbury, CT. Sage exhibited in the 1940s and 1950s. In 1958 she lost part of her vision and in 1963, she fatally shot herself. Her paintings and illustrations are held by Wesleyan University, the MoMA and the Walker Art Center.