"Bourgeois and her family spent a great deal of time in the forties at a small country house in Easton, Connecticut. The cupboard depicted in this woodcut was a notable piece of furniture at that house and remains in her family today. For Bourgeois the cupboards brings back memories of shortages during the war and the need to store up food. " [from the the publication of the Museum of Modern Art, New York: The prints of Louise Bourgeois]