![]() ![]() From 1914 to 1917 she attended the Minneapolis School of Art (later Minneapolis College of Art and Design), also on scholarship. In 1913, she won a scholarship to the St. Wanda Gág's ambitions were always strong, and she won drawing competitions as a teenager. His dying words were reported as, "What Papa was unable to accomplish, Wanda will have to finish." Years of hunger and deprivation followed, but all of the Gág children went to high school. ![]() In 1908, when she was fifteen, Anton died of tuberculosis. Anton struggled to find work, painting church interiors, taking photographic portraits, and even trying to start an art school. The family was close, and Wanda grew up believing that every child had an innate ability to draw. He and his wife Elisabeth (Lissi) encouraged all of their children to read, to draw, and to make music. In the late nineteenth century they married in New Ulm, where Wanda was born in 1893.Īnton Gág was a painter, photographer, musician, and mentor. Both of her parents were also bohemian in spirit, being artists and freethinkers. Her father was from the region called Bohemia that is now part of the Czech Republic. Gág and her family were Bohemian in both senses of the word. ![]() Her talent steered her through family hardship and hesitant early artistic efforts until she created Millions of Cats, her 1928 children's book. ![]() Wanda Gág was determined to be an artist from an early age, and ultimately she succeeded. ![]()
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