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Kay Sage, Study for "Third Paragraph", 1953, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the estate of the artist), 2015.19.97

Study for "Third Paragraph"

Kay Sage · 1953 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2015.19.97

A charcoal-gray, pointed, tower-like form wrapped with cords or vines rises to our left against a barren desert in this horizontal painting. Light falls from our left onto the sharply pointed tip of the tower. A deep, jagged shadow cast from a formation outside of our view to our left falls across the oatmeal-brown desert floor. Two rounded white forms, perhaps stones, lie near the lower right corner, and cast ink-black shadows on the ground. The horizon comes just over a third of the way up the composition. Along the horizon, two clusters of buildings and low hills are painted with tones of hazy indigo blue and tan. The sky above is ice blue, and a veil-like cloud stretches from the horizon to our left of center up into the right corner. The artist signed and dated the painting in the lower right corner, “Kay Sage 40.”
Kay Sage, A Finger on the Drum, 1940, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the estate of the artist), 2014.136.92

A Finger on the Drum

Kay Sage · 1940 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.92