Kay Sage (Katherin Linn Sage) was an American Surrealist painter and poet. Her compositions possessed a sleekness that betrayed no brushwork, and their content was characterized by stiff architectural objects and suggestions of figures against bleak landscapes or wastelands (Blumberg).

In her work she favoured the geometric over the organic, and landscapes turned from natural vistas into barren psychological spaces. Constructed in mind, Sage built stage sets on canvas that typically look transitional, temporary, and unstable like scaffolding or theatre rigging. Following the unexpected death of her love, Tanguy, she suffered greatly at the end of her life. As a concluding tragedy that one wonders from the overarching tone of sadness that her paintings had already foreseen, Sage became partially blind and took her own life. (theartstory)