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Best known for her work as an illustrator of children’s books (such as Millions of Cats) and socialist magazines, Wanda Gág blazed a trail as an emphatically independent artist in the U.S. across the 1920s and 1930s. In this talk, curator Laurel Garber will introduce the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s unrivaled holdings of Gág prints and drawings and discuss the artist’s singular graphic style. Across her urban vignettes, roving landscapes, and surreal interiors, Gág’s aesthetic style quivers with an energy and vividness that blurs the lines between the artist and her surroundings.