Too Soon for Thunder (1943)
Kay Sage
American, 1898-1963
Oil on canvas

Kay Sage, an American, was associated with the Surrealist movement, which explored the expression of an alternative reality through the unconscious mind and dream imagery.

Too Soon for Thunder is a desolate landscape, filled with enigmatic, architectural motifs and draped, skeletal phantoms. Of a similar image Sage explained, "It's a sort of showing what's inside-things half mechanical, half alive. The mountain itself can represent almost anything-a human, life, the world, any fundamental thing…I do know that while I'm painting, I feel as though I am living in the place." 🔺