A drawing of columns in light gray with flared segmented bases.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The drawing is of columns which are thicker in width at the front of the drawing and get thinner as they recede and fill the upper half of the picture space. The columns rise out of flared, segmented cones, the segments are defined by black lines. In the lower right corner, resting on one of the segments is a small egg shape which casts a shadow. The drawing is in shades of gray.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.76
People
Kay Sage, American (Albany NY 1898 - 1963 Woodbury CT)
Title
Untitled
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: The Minutes
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1943
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/199251

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gray wash over graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
27 x 16.9 cm (10 5/8 x 6 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: Kay Sage '43
  • inscription: verso, graphite: 10

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Hugh Chisholm. [Charles M. Young, Glastonbury Connecticut], sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund
Copyright
© Kay Sage / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.76
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Victoria Noel-Johnson and Marzina Marzetti, ed., Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy: Ring of Iron, Ring of Wool, exh. cat., Skira (Milan, 2023), p. 95, cat. no. 29, ill. (color)

Exhibition History

  • A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings from 1940 to 2000, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/03/2000 - 08/27/2000
  • 32Q: 1300 Early Modernism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/17/2019 - 06/03/2021

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