Katherine Linn Sage usually known as Kay Sage, was an American

United States

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 Surrealist artist and poet.
She was born in Albany, New York

Albany, New York

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 the second daughter of a prosperous upper middle class family, Henry Manning Sage and Annie Wheeler Ward. She attended the Foxcroft School

Foxcroft School

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, in Virginia, where she became the life long friend of Flora Payne Whitney

Flora Payne Whitney

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, heiress to the Whitney, Payne and Vanderbilt fortunes, and one of the founders of the Whitney Museum.

Much of Kay's youth was spent traveling around Europe with her mother, a free spirit whose ample means allowed her to indulge an unquenchable wanderlust

Wanderlust

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.

Sage settled down in Rapallo

Rapallo

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, Italy

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, to pursue art studies in Rome

Rome

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 in the early 1920s.