Finely Drawn on a Summer Afternoon

Cream Hill, 1930, Wanda Gág

Wanda, in her underwear, is a afternoon delight as she awaits her lover.

As I gaze upon the scene I can almost feel the heat of summer, the smell of the outside air wafting in, creating a mixture of those scents mixing with the nostrums and parfums on the dresser. And with the scent of Wanda.

But is that a trace of anxiety I see in her face?

Wanda Gág drew this at the home of the writer Lewis Gannett, who was also one of Wanda’s intimate friends. He memorialized Cream Hill, his summer estate, in a 1949 book of the same name.