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Wed, 25 Sep 2024 14:03:03 -0500

Our principal reason for visiting the Whitney was their exhibit of works by Wanda Gag. She was raised in New Ulm, Minnesota before moving to New York in 1917, where she found success as a children's book illustrator. Her Millions of Cats is the oldest American picture book still in print. I think her other work is great and resonant with the contemporary scientific view of the physical world. She understood a still life to be "never still, it is solidified energy -- and space does not impress me as being empty."