The Answer Is No | Yale University Art Gallery

1958

The "no" answer is to Kay Sage's continuance of oil painting. The blank canvases and easels wall off any possible passage through the tortuous and impossible maze. Scaffolding, which for Sage had represented creation in other earlier works, now signifies a blocking, a kind of futility.

Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 39 × 32 in. (99.1 × 81.3 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Alexandra I. Darrow, B.F.A. 1933, in memory of Judson S. Darrow
Accession Number: 1993.76.2
Geography: Made in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Paintings
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Bibliography

Mark Mitchell et al., The Art of American Still Life: Audubon to Warhol, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015), 240, fig. 113

Jonathan Stuhlman and Stephen Robeson Miller, Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, exh. cat. (Katonah, N.Y.: Katonah Museum of Art, 2011), 97, no. 43, ill.

Object copyright

In Copyright

Additional information

Object/Work type

architecture, cityscapes (representations), landscapes (representations)

Subject

Women artists psychology sky

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