Minneapolis Institute of Art
Backyard Corner
Wanda GágLinkedCulture matchlcp-859de2949827
- Date
- 1930
- Medium
- Lithograph on stone
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 57404
Backyard Corner could be Wanda Gág’s manifesto. Besides demonstrating her deep emotional attachment to things and places, it describes the activated space that she felt enveloped objects and connected them. This idea can be seen in the halo of concentric lines around the ax handle and the force-lines (her term) flowing from the buckets. These pulsing, vibrating lines knit these objects—and by extension their user—to the soil. In this way, the print conveys Gág’s personal credo of living close to the earth. United States, Americas
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- Credit line
- Gift of Dr. and Mr.s John E. Larkin, Jr.
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