Wanda Gág’s World

In 1929, Gág visited relatives in her hometown of New Ulm, Minnesota, where she paid particular attention to the interiors and objects which had captured her imagination as a child. Reflecting on the trip in a later diary entry, she wrote:

“One of the things I planned to do during my short visit there, was to get some very accurate drawings of all these well-known corners, furniture and so on. Even the old couch, on which all the Gágs had sat thousands of times, was still in its old place, with the newspaper rack above it, Aunt Lena’s sewing machine to the left of it, and one of those wild pink, blue and lavender bas-relief calendars on the wall to the right of the couch….I spent most of my time drawing frantically. There were so many spots I wanted to draw.” —Wanda Gág, diary entry, 1938