Wanda Gág’s World

Gág preferred working in the countryside—first in rural Connecticut, later in New Jersey—where she felt most inspired to draw. Describing the productive summers she spent from 1925 to 1930 in a rented farmhouse she called Tumble Timbers, Gág wrote in her diary:

“Everything I looked at cried out to be captured and set down on paper. It mattered little whether I looked at a landscape or a junk heap, a cat or a flower or a weed, my Sears-Roebuck bed, or my bare kitchen—each thing had a personality and a life of its own, and all arranged themselves in ready-made compositions about me.” —Gág, diary entry, 1938