Spinning Wheel, 1927
Wanda Gágexpand_more
Lithograph on zinc plateexpand_more
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. John E. Larkin, Jr.expand_more P.87.13.8
Not on Viewexpand_more
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.
Details
- Title
- Spinning Wheel
- Artist Life
- 1893–1946
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- P.87.13.8
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Z.&J. 36; W.37
- Curator Approved
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