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Fairy Story

1937

Wanda Gág

Associated Names

Wanda Gág

Artist, American, 1893 - 1946

American Artists Group

Publisher

This is a drawing of a cottage in a fantastical landscape. The image features a house with a tall, pointed roof and arched doors, illuminated from within. The surroundings include rolling hills, a curved path with stairs leading to the house, and a figure wearing a crown sitting outside. Large leaves and plants fill the foreground, with cloud-like forms in the sky. Small creatures or birds spiral upward, and there are faint depictions of animals and fantastical characters peeking from a burrowed area.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph in black
Credit Line

Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams
Dimensions

image: 22.86 × 31.43 cm (9 × 12 3/8 in.)
Accession Number

2008.115.5259
Catalogue Raisonné

Winnan 1993, no. 113

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reba and Dave Williams, Greenwich, Connecticut; acquired 2008 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Dave H. and Reba W. Williams

Bibliography

1993

Winnan, Audur H. Wanda Ga'g: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Prints. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1993, no. 113.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: W. / Ga'g / © 37

Wikidata ID

Q76555406

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