Wanda Gág Day!

In honor of Wanda's passion, here is a reprise of some music AI videos I made last year featuring Wanda in her own words. First is this letter she wrote to her ex-lover Adolph Dehn:



It may well be that her break-up with Dehn kick-started her career for soon after this she began successfully making and showing her fine art prints and drawings. A few years later, in Carl Zigrosser’s Weyhe Gallery in New York City, she had a one-woman show where she was ‘discovered’ by Ernestine Evans who persuaded her to complete and submit Millions of Cats. Adolph, despite his transgressions, remained a life-long friend of Wanda’s. He is pictured here (on the right) in 1939 with Rockwell Kent, Carl Zigrosser and Wanda:

And here is Wanda in her yearning/poetic mode, circa 1916:



I adjusted the meter and a little bit of the wordage in the first video, the second was pretty much the way Wanda wrote it, with additional vocal flourishes in the chorus. Click through for more information and lyrics.

Much more on Wanda…