Yves Tanguy born Paris, France 1900; died Woodbury, CT 1955 The Earth and the Air 1941 Oil on canvas Uncanny objects appear scattered in a vast landscape indicated by a horizon line and cloudy sky. Yves Tanguy’s most characteristic works are painted in this meticulous style with highly distinctive imagery, which often feature half-marine and half-lunar landscapes where oddly shaped objects proliferate in a ghostly dreamlike space. Tanguy worked as a mariner before he took up painting after seeing works by Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) in 1923. He soon joined the Surrealist group of artists in Paris, France, before immigrating to the United States in 1939, where he lived for the rest of his life together with American painter Kay Sage (1898–1963), his wife. Bequest of Saidie A. May, BMA 1951.363