Celebrate Halloween with Wanda Gág, Cats at the Window (1929)
Nov 13, 2024
Happy Halloween from the Whitney and our 'avant-gourd' masterpiece inspired by Wanda Gág! Our friends at Maniac Pumpkin Carvers have done it again with Wanda Gág’s Cats at the Window (1929), carved into our pumpkin, on display at the Whitney. Works by Wanda Gág are on view now on Floor 7 in Wanda Gág’s World through December 2nd.
Wanda Gág’s World is co-curated by Roxanne Smith, Senior Curatorial Assistant, and Scout Hutchinson, Curatorial Fellow. The work duplicated in this carving is: Wanda Gág, Cats at the Window, 1929, printed 1930. Wood engraving, 8 9/16 × 7 1/2in. (21.7 × 19.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.114 © Estate of Wanda Gág