About This Artwork

Kay Sage
American, 1898-1963

In the Third Sleep, 1944

Oil on canvas
100.3 x 144.8 cm (39 1/2 x 57 in.)
s.l.r. Kay Sage 44
Friends of American Art Collection; Watson F. Blair Prize Fund, 1945.198

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, Julian Levy Gallery, Paintings by Kay Sage, October 3–31, 1944, no. 1.

Art Institute,, Fifty-sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings, October 25, 1945–January 1, 1946, no. 126, ill.

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, New Accessions USA, July 15–Sept. 2, 1946, cat. 9.

Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage, August 10–September 28, 1954, no. 2.

Lake Forest College, A Century of American Painting, Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10–16, 1957, no. 31.

University of California at Berkeley, Anxious Visions, Surrealist Art, October 3–December 30, 1990, np.

Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, Surrealism, January 15–April 16, 1995, ill.

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2, September 18, 1997–January 4, 1998.

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al., "American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955," (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2009), cat. 141.