Free This Saturday! 🎨✨
Wanda Gag exhibit
• The "Real Deal": See original works, many in color!Where: Brown County Historical Society (2nd Floor Gallery) This Saturday, 10 a.m. – 3 p.m. (Free to the public!)
#WandaGag #NewUlm #MNHistory #SupportLocalArt #BrownCounty #MillionsOfCats
American artist Wanda Gág made this self-portrait at Cream Hill, a rural retreat in West Cornwall, Connecticut, where she often escaped city life around 1930. A tall wooden dresser dominates a narrow room, its arched mirror framing the artist’s reflected body. In the glass, we see a light-skinned woman with a close-cropped bob and snug cap sitting sideways on a bed, torso turned toward us, one knee bent forward. She wears a patterned slip that clings to her angled figure, bare arms and legs modeled with dense, rippling ink lines. Her expression is concentrated and slightly wary. Outside the mirror, the room holds only objects like a bright window at left filtered through sheer, wind-ruffled curtains, dark walls closing in at right, small bottles, a box, and a shallow dish scattered across the dresser’s side shelves. The floorboards and a striped rug run toward us in wavering perspective, their heavy cross-hatching making the whole space quiver between the everyday and the uncanny. Long celebrated as a pioneering “New Woman,” Gág supported herself as an illustrator, printmaker, and author (later famed for “Millions of Cats”) while openly embracing feminist independence. Here, she claims a private bedroom as studio and stage, turning a practical piece of furniture into a portal where interior décor, landscape light, and artistic labor converge. Museum writers note that she pictures herself actively engaged in drawing this very work, folding process and product into one looping reflection. The tilted walls, vibrating marks, and doubled space suggest a life in which she made art structures both her surroundings and her sense of self to echo her motto “Draw to live and live to draw.”
“Self-Portrait in Dresser Mirror: Cream Hill” by Wanda Gág (American) – Black ink applied with brush over traces of graphite on paper / 1930 – Philadelphia Museum of Art (Pennsylvania) #WomenInArt #artText #art #AmericanArtist #1930s #WandaGág #WandaGag #Gág #SelfPortrait #PhiladelphiaMuseumOfArt
🐈"Cats here, cats there,
Cats and kittens everywhere,
Hundreds of cats,
Thousands of cats,
Millions and billions and trillions of cats!🐈
~Millions of Cats, 1928
#WandaGag #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #BookClub #KidLitSky #KidLitChat
Wanda Gág (1893-1946)
American author and illustrator best known for Millions of Cats, the oldest American picture book still in print.
#wandagag #millionsofcats #paintingissexy #ancobilt #artstudio
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🐈"Cats here, cats there,
Cats and kittens everywhere,
Hundreds of cats,
Thousands of cats,
Millions and billions and trillions of cats!🐈
~Millions of Cats, 1928
#WandaGag #Kidlitart #childrensbooks #illustration #kidlit #picturebooks #BookSky #WritingCommunity #BookClub #KidLitSky #KidLitChat
If you don't know Wanda's work- that's shocking! Because she's the best! Oh and edit- I didn't mean to say she was 'the first' to do author-illustrator/lettering combo but that she pushed that forward quite a lot. More on @Moonbow.books lnkd.in/gqqXz9R8 #wandagag #millionsofcats #newtypeface
New typeface alert! Light, Regular, Semi-Bold & Chonky. Plus ornaments. Monday the 3rd I'm releasing this ode to Wanda Gag, the Vienna Secession and Speedball Series B pens. It'll be on www.futurefonts.xyz/marthasuecou... More soon! #womenintype #newtype #wandagag #viennasecession #speedballpens
Hi there 👋 I wanted to show you my WIP typeface and specimen, it's inspired by the children's book author #Wandagag and the lettering of the Vienna Secession artists, specifically Berthold Loeffler. More on them soon #typography #newtypeface #womenintype
Self-soothing skitchy-sketch for this evening. It’s meant to be Wanda Gág. Try, try again. 😘 #wandagag #skitchy #sketchbook #dailydrawing #watercolor #failagainfailbetter
