Clara Mairs achieved a modest national reputation through her etchings in the 1920s and 30s, while maintaining a longer prominence as both painter and printmaker in the upper Midwest.
Studying art at the St. Paul Institute of Arts and Sciences and then with Daniel Garber at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Mairs began her career as a painter in St. Paul. In 1923 she moved to Paris for studies with Cubist teacher Andre Lhote and at the Academie Julian; on a second trip a few yea (showing 500 of 1676 characters). |
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