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About The Artist: Clara Gardner Mairs

Clara Gardner Mairs was an American painter and printmaker. Her prints were included in the publication Fine Prints of the Year during the 1930s. Clara Gardner Mairs was born on January 5, 1878, in Hastings, Minnesota to Abigail and Samuel Mairs. Her grandfather, Stephen Gardner, built the first grain mill in Dakota County on the Vermillion River. Her father, Samuel Mairs, died in 1891 and Abigail moved a 13-year-old Clara and her three younger...