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A Bird in the Room
1955
Kay Sage
Kay Sage (American, 1898–1963)
American Painting and Sculpture
A Bird in the Room, 1955. Kay Sage (American, 1898–1963). Oil on canvas; unframed: 99.1 x 81.3 cm (39 x 32 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy 1964.340 © Estate of Kay Sage / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York To maintain her own identity, Sage often refused to exhibit with her husband, also an artist.
- Maker/Artist
- Sage, Kay
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 99.1 x 81.3 cm (39 x 32 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Signed lower left: Kay Sage '55 Written on back of stretcher: "A Bird in the Room '55 Kay Sage/Woodbury, Conn."
- Departments
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Accession Number
- 1964.340
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review (1964), Kay Sage, 1898-1963, Double Solitaire: The Surrealist Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, "Kay Sage: Exhibition of Paintings," January 3-28, 1956, no. 7.<br>Catherine Viviano Gallery, New York, "Kay Sage Retrospective Exhibition, 1937-1958," April 5-30, 1960, no. 45.<br>Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, "Kay Sage, 1898-1963," January 26 - March 13, 1977, cat. 53. Travelled to Art Gallery, University of Maryland, April 5 - May 15, 1977; and Albany Institute of History and Art, June 8 - July 20, 1977.<br>Katonah Museum of Art, NY (6/5/2011 - 9/18/2011), Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA (10/8/2011 - 1/8/2012), and Mint Museum of Art/Uptown, Charlotte, NC (2/11/2012 - 5/13/2012): "Double Solitaire: The Surrealist Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy", ex. cat. no. 44, p. 98.
- Rights Statement
- Copyrighted undefined
- Museum Location
- 226B American Modern
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