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Kay Sage to Flora Whitney Miller, ca. 1918

Flora Whitney Miller Papers Regarding Kay Sage, 1915- circa 1982

This site provides access to the papers of Flora Whitney Miller in the Archives of American Art that were digitized in 2007. The papers have been scanned in their entirety, and total 421 images.

This small collection of papers (168 items) of socialite, art collector and patron Flora Whitney Miller document Miller's life-long friendship with surrealist artist Kay Sage and date from 1915 to circa 1982. Found within the papers are 79 letters written to Miller by Sage; four letters written to Miller after Sage's suicide about Sage, and one reply letter; typescripts of 63 poems written by Sage, one handwritten poem by Sage, two Sage exhibition catalogs, and 18 snapshot photographs of Sage, Miller, and their friends. Documentation of Miller's career is not found within the papers. Read more About this Collection.

Funding for the processing and digitization of this collection was provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

Series 1: Flora Whitney Miller papers regarding Kay Sage, 1915-1982

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