Sage, Kay, 1898-1963
Painter, Illustrator
Size: ca. 160 p. (on 1 microfilm reel)
Summary: Kay Sage's memoirs, covering the period ca. 1910-1935. She writes of her family; childhood years in the United States and Europe; travels; her painting; living in Italy; her marriage to Prince Ranieri di San Faustino; and her friendship with Ezra Pound. The manuscript is a typescript, edited throughout, presumably by Sage.
Painter; Woodbury, Conn. Born 1898 in Albany, N.Y. Married surrealist painter Yves Tanguay. Died 1963.
Photocopy donated 1966 by Henry Sage Goodwin, relative of Sage.
Microfilm reel 685 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
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Copyright retained by John S. Monagan, Washington, D.C.
China eggs / Kay Sage, 1955. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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