Sage, This
Kay Sage, who was one of the earliest American artists to be associated with surrealism, completed This Is Another Day at an important moment in her career. This canvas is distinguished from much of Sage’s oeuvre by its unique domelike scaffolding; such curving structures appear in only a handful of her other paintings, most of them created in 1949 and 1950. Of these, this is perhaps the most successful. Displaying a sensitive balance between form and emptiness, solidity and openness, the painting possesses a sense of quiet desolation that is accentuated by its title, which suggests the monotony—and, perhaps, the bleakness—of daily routine.Kay SageAmerican1898Albany, NY1963Woodbury, CT 
This Is Another Day1949Oil on canvas24 × 20 University of Nebraska–Lincoln, gift of the artist’s estateU-474.1963
This Is Another Day1949Oil on canvas24 × 20 University of Nebraska–Lincoln, gift of the artist’s estateU-474.1963