[2] Julie de Graag quickly entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, in a class made up solely of women.

[3] Julie de Graag then established herself as an independent artist and developed multiple skills in woodcut, embroidery, and painting.

[4] Alongside her work as a professional artist, Julie de Graag also taught drawing at the Utrecht School for Girls.

Julie de Graag's work has been described as powerful, and as showing a technical mastery, making use of strong contrasting colours, and the omission of details.

[3] While de Graag's works often incorporate elements of abstraction, she did not do as far as other contemporary artists such as Bart van der Leck and Piet Mondriaan.

From 16 September 2017 to 5 May 2019, the Drents Museum held the exhibition "Uit fijn hout gesneden" ("Cut from fine wood") which featured 14 works by Julie de Graag.