Minneapolis Institute of Art

Spinning Wheel

Wanda Gág

Date

1927

Medium

Lithograph on zinc plate

Department

Arts of the Americas

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Harsh spotlights and nightmarish distortions—this spinning wheel practically touches the ceiling—are two trademark techniques used by Wanda Gág to communicate the intensity with which she saw the world. The spinning wheel could refer to old-fashioned self-reliance, a theme of her summers at a rural spot she called Tumble Timbers, where this scene was set. United States, Americas

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