This series includes Sage's visa, birth certificate, passports, resume, an award, and an essay about Sage written by longtime friend and attorney John S. Monagan. Also found is material concerning Sage's death, including her suicide note, letters she wrote expressing her funeral requests, lists of people to notify, obituaries, and correspondence between John S. Monagan and others, including Pierre Matisse, the Executor of her will. This series also contains scattered business and financial documents concerning income tax and various lists written by Sage for expenses, invitations, cards, paintings, and price lists for her artwork.
Description Container Select Biographical Documents and Award, 1925-1959 Select: Biographical Documents and Award, 1925-1959 Material Regarding Kay Sage's Death, 1960-1963 Select: Material Regarding Kay Sage's Death, 1960-1963 John S. Monagan Essay on Kay Sage, circa 1985 Select: John S. Monagan Essay on Kay Sage, circa 1985 Passports, 1928, 1938, 1952 Select: Passports, 1928, 1938, 1952 Notes & Lists by Kay Sage, 1956-1962 Select: Notes & Lists by Kay Sage, 1956-1962 Notebook of Expenses and Christmas Card Lists, 1949-1962 Select: Notebook of Expenses and Christmas Card Lists, 1949-1962 Lists of Paintings, 1954-1960 Select: Lists of Paintings, 1954-1960 Financial Material, 1940,1959-1961 Select: Financial Material, 1940,1959-1961 Cat Fancier's Association Registration Form, 1956 Select: Cat Fancier's Association Registration Form, 1956
This series contains scattered correspondence documenting Sage's career and relationships with friends and family. Correspondence with the Catherine Viviano Gallery in New York discusses exhibitions and sales of Sage's work. Correspondence with her attorney John S. Monagan and with the Museum of Modern Art concerns Sage's loans of artwork for exhibitions and later donations of artwork. Other general correspondence includes letters and postcards with family and friends such as Dorothea Tanning, Pierre and Patricia Matisse, Hans and Fridel Richter, and Yves's sister, Emilie Tanguy, as well as correspondence with various museums and galleries concerning exhibitions and/or donations of Sage's work.
Correspondence is arranged chronologically within each folder.
Description Container Select Correspondence with Catherine Viviano Gallery, 1956-1961 Select: Correspondence with Catherine Viviano Gallery, 1956-1961 Correspondence with John S. Monagan, 1955-1958 Select: Correspondence with John S. Monagan, 1955-1958 Correspondence with Museum of Modern Art, 1955-1962 Select: Correspondence with Museum of Modern Art, 1955-1962 General Correspondence, 1945-1958 Select: General Correspondence, 1945-1958 General Correspondence, 1959-1963 Select: General Correspondence, 1959-1963
This series contains exhibition catalogs and announcements for exhibitions of work by Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, a few news clippings which mention Kay Sage, unsent postcards that she collected, and a press release with photocopies of artwork for the 1965 exhibition of the Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest at the Museum of Modern Art.
Description Container Select Exhibition Catalogs and Announcements, 1956-1965 Select: Exhibition Catalogs and Announcements, 1956-1965 News Clippings, 1963-1974 Select: News Clippings, 1963-1974 Postcards (unsent), circa 1930-1951 Select: Postcards (unsent), circa 1930-1951 Press Release, "Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest Shown at Museum of Modern Art,", 1965 Select: Press Release, "Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest Shown at Museum of Modern Art,", 1965(Partially scanned)
This series includes one photograph of Yves and Kay Sage Tanguy and two photographs of their home "Town Farm" in Middlebury, Connecticut. Also found are photographs from the 1965 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art of artwork bequested to the museum by Kay Sage and photographs of artwork that was in Kay Sage's home.
Description Container Select Photographs of Yves and Kay Sage Tanguy, circa 1950 Select: Photographs of Yves and Kay Sage Tanguy, circa 1950 Photographs of Tanguy Home, "Town Farm", circa 1950 Select: Photographs of Tanguy Home, "Town Farm", circa 1950 Exhibition Photographs, "Recent Acquisitions: The Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest,", 1965 Select: Exhibition Photographs, "Recent Acquisitions: The Kay Sage Tanguy Bequest,", 1965 Photographs of Artwork at Tanguy House, 1962 Select: Photographs of Artwork at Tanguy House, 1962
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