Yves Tanguy and André Breton formed part of the contingent of Surrealists who fled Nazi-occupied Paris and later sought refuge on American shores. Tanguy immigrated with the painter Kay Sage in 1939, settling in Woodbury, Connecticut, where Breton visited them in 1941. Although he returned to Europe after the war, Breton’s influential perspectives on politics and Surrealism were widely disseminated during his American sojourn through his lectures. Their joint notebook—filled with Breton’s poems alongside Tanguy’s drawings—speaks to the Surrealists’ fascination with interactions between word and image.