Snow Drifts

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Snow Drifts

Wanda GágLinkedCulture matchlcp-859de2949827

Date
1934
Medium
Lithograph
Department
Arts of the Americas
Institution
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID
49816

Snowbound in the early 1930s at her New Jersey farm (bought with earnings from her children’s books), Wanda Gág headed to her studio and apparently decided to have some fun. Treating snow like hunks of sugary meringue, she carved it into patterns that might have been plucked from her childhood. The various shapes could be a frilly collar, an angel wing, or a chair leg. At middle left could be a stylized G. United States, Americas

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Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John E. Larkin, Jr.

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