 She worked for the College Art Association from 1931 to 1937 as an editorial assistant on the journal "Parnassus".She met Rene d'Harnoncourt, her future boss as director of the Museum of Modern Art, while she was working in Washington, D.C. at the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs.She also traveled to Mexico, in 1936, as part of the leftist Committee Against War and Fascism, where she developed an interest in Latin and Central American political graphics.