Flora Whitney Miller papers regarding Kay Sage

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Flora Whitney Miller papers regarding Kay Sage

1915-1982

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This small collection of papers (168 items) of socialite, art collector and patron Flora Whitney Miller document Miller's life-long friendship with surrealist artist Kay Sage measure 0.2 linear feet and date from 1915 to circa 1982. Found within the papers are 79 letters written to Miller from Sage; four letters written to Miller about Sage after Sage's suicide, and one reply letter; typescripts of 63 poems written by Sage; one handwritten poem by Sage; two Sage exhibition catalogs; and 18 snapshot photographs of Sage, Miller, and their friends. Documentation of Miller's career is not found within the papers.

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Sage, Kay

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Painter; Woodbury, Conn. Born 1898 in Albany, N.Y. Married surrealist painter Yves Tanguay. Died 1963. From the description of China eggs / Kay Sage. 1955. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84558254 From the description of Kay Sage papers, 1925 - circa 1985 bulk 1950-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 220236569 Kay Sage was born Katherine Linn Sage in Albany, New York in 1898 to Ann and Henry Manning Sage, a state senator. After her parents divorced she ...

Miller, Flora Whitney

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Flora Whitney Miller (1897-1986) was born into two prominent New York families as the daughter of Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whitney. She attended the Brearley School in New York and Foxcroft School in Middleburg, Virginia, where she met and became close life-long friends with the artist Kay Sage. In 1916 Flora made her debut and, shortly after became engaged to Quentin Roosevelt, son of President Theodore Roosevelt. Before they married, Quentin died tragically in 1918 when...