Exhibition Review, . "Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future". April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone . Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was... Read full biography
Exhibition Review, . "Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future". April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone . Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was America’s great painter of menace, dread, and the post-apocalyptic future. Her trademark was “the... Read full biography
Exhibition Review, . "Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future". April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone . Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was America’s great painter of menace, dread, and the post-apocalyptic future. Her trademark was “the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm,” observed biographer Régine Tessier. Like a thunderstorm, Sage’s art could be depressing and exhilarating. A true contrarian might nominate Sage as the best of all... Read full biography
Exhibition Review, . "Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future". April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone . Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was America’s great painter of menace, dread, and the post-apocalyptic future. Her trademark was “the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm,” observed biographer Régine Tessier. Like a thunderstorm, Sage’s art could be depressing and exhilarating. A true contrarian might nominate Sage as the best of all the Western Hemisphere surrealists. Frida, move over? . Born in Albany, Sage had one of her first gallery shows in Los Angeles, at the Tone Price gallery in 1940. Despite that, no Sage paintings have made their way into local museum collections.... Read full biography
Exhibition Review, . "Los Angeles County Museum on Fire: Kay Sage, Painter of an Odd Future". April 30, 2012 by William Poundstone . Consider Kay Sage (1898-1963) the anti-Thomas Kinkade. She was America’s great painter of menace, dread, and the post-apocalyptic future. Her trademark was “the sulphurous light before a thunderstorm,” observed biographer Régine Tessier. Like a thunderstorm, Sage’s art could be depressing and exhilarating. A true contrarian might nominate Sage as the best of all the Western Hemisphere surrealists. Frida, move over? . Born in Albany, Sage had one of her first gallery shows in Los Angeles, at the Tone Price gallery in 1940. Despite that, no Sage paintings have made their way into local museum collections. That’s remedied temporarily by LACMA’s “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (65)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture from Smith College Museum
1999
Editor, Smith College Museum
307 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists
1997
Martin, Elizabeth; Vivian Meyer
176 pages (color)
A House of Her Own: Kay Sage Solitary Surrealist
1997
Sather, Judith D
288 pages (color)
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
The Remarkable Lives Of 100 Women Artists
1994
Bailey, Brooke
207 pages
The Landscape in Twentieth Century American Art
1991
Rosenblum, Robert (intro)
174 pages (color)
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Cornell Collects: A Celebration of American Art from the Collections of Alumni and Friends, Cornell University (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Leavitt, Thomas (Intro); Richard Schwartz; Frank H.T. Rhodes
196 pages (color)
Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art
1990
Stich, Sidra
295 pages (color)
Art in Place Fifteen Years of Acquisition (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Armstrong, Tom/Susan C Larsen
230 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
20th Century Drawings from the Whitney Museum of American Art
1987
Cummings, Paul
176 pages (color)
Women Artists An Illustrated History
1987
Heller, Nancy
224 pages (color)
A Guide to the Collections: Smith College Museum of Art
1986
Chetham, Charles; David Grose
312 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
Colorado Springs Fine Art Center A History and Selections from the Collection
1986
Piazza, Paul/Marshall Sprague
210 pages (color)
Rose Art Museum Selected 20th Century Paintings
1986
Rose Art Museum
147 pages (color)
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
In the Mind's Eye Dada and Surrealism (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Neff, Ann R (editor)
240 pages (color)
Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900
1985
Petteys, Chris with Hazel Gustow, Ferris Olin and Verna Ritchie
851 pages
Order and Enigma (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Clark-Langager, Sarah
95 pages
Paintings and Sculpture In the Permanent Collection
1983
Bermingham, Peter/Daphne Deeds
273 pages (color)
The Art Museums of New England
1982
Faison, S Lane Jr
490 pages
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
American Paintings at Yale University: An illustrated Checklist (Exhibition catalog)
1982
Stebbins, Theodore/G Gorokhoff
213 pages
Solitude Inner Visions in American Art (Exhibition catalog)