
Art Institute of Chicago
In the Third Sleep
Kay Sage · 1944
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, New York; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1945.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Julian Levy Gallery, <em>Paintings by Kay Sage</em>, Oct. 3–31, 1944, no. 1.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/8609/american-exhibition-of-paintings-56th-annual"><em>Fifty–Sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings</em></a>, Oct. 25, 1945–Jan. 1, 1946, cat. 126.
- Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, <em>New Accessions USA</em>, July 15–Sept. 2, 1946, cat. 9.
- Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, <em>Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage</em>, Aug. 10–Sept. 28, 1954, cat. 2.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 30.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- University of California at Berkeley, <em>Anxious Visions: Surrealist Art</em>, Oct. 3–Dec. 30, 1990, np.
- Roslyn Harbor, New York, Nassau County Museum of Art, <em>Surrealism</em>, Jan. 15–Apr. 16, 1995, ill.
- Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, <em>Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections 2</em>, Sept. 18, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998.
Literature
Published references
- Frederick A. Sweet, <em>The Fifty-Sixth Annual American Exhibition of Paintings</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1945), n.p., cat. 126, pl. XI (ill.).
- Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, <em>New Accessions USA</em>, exh. cat. (Colorado Springs: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, 1946), cat. 9.
- Wadsworth Atheneum, <em>Yves Tanguy, Kay Sage</em>, exh. cat. (Wadsworth Atheneum, 1954), cat. 2.
- Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, exh. cat. (Lake Forest, IL: Lake Forest College, 1957), cat. 31.
- Judith Suther, <em>A House of Her Own: Kay Sage, Solitary Surrealist</em> (University of Nebraska Press, 1997), (ill.).
- Lynn Gamwell, ed., <em>Dreams 1900–2000: Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind</em>, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 274 (ill.).
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Modernism at the Art Institute of Chicago, From World War I to 1955</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2009), 286–88, cat. 141 (ill.).
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