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Andrus, Vera (1896-1979) Spring in the Marsh.
1935.
Lithograph on wove paper depicting emerging skunk cabbage in a rainy marsh, with a frog in the foreground, signed, titled, and dated in pencil along the bottom edge, print numbered 4 from an edition of 20; 17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.
Andrus was a Wisconsin native and lifelong friend of fellow illustrator Wanda Gag. On finding lithography she said, "The first time I drew on a lithographic stone, I felt as though I had turned a corner and found something that I had been looking for all of my life." She won a scholarship to the Art Students League in 1934. Andrus worked closely with master printer George C. Miller and Miller's son Burr to produce seventy-five different lithographs, each printed in small editions. Andrus also worked as a staff member at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for twenty-eight years.
