Wanda Gág’s World

Gág often described her art-making as a kind of neverending pursuit to represent a world perpetually in motion. In a 1926 letter to her gallerist Carl Zigrosser, she wrote:

“My aesthetic existence teems with forms which project themselves tauntingly toward me, recede elusively from me, bulge, flow, and most of all, turn triumphantly over the edge of things, leaving one to wonder what’s going on beyond. But of course that’s exactly the place where I can’t afford to give up, so girding my aesthetic loins (used in figurative sense only!) and setting my face in dogged ecstasy, I go at ’em again!”