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Beth and Joe Krush, oil on linen, 36" x 48"
If you grew up in the 50s, 60s and maybe even the 70s, and you liked to read, you might recognize the names of the people in this portrait. The Krushes are a husband and wife illustrating team who drew the detailed, lively and appealing line drawings for books such as The Borrowers series by Mary Norton, Gone Away Lake and Return to Gone Away by Elizabeth Enright, The Shoe Bird by Eudora Welty, and All-of-a-Kind Family Downtown by Sydney Taylor, as well as books by Eleanor Cameron, Beverly Cleary, and Florence Hightower, and many others.
I was a huge fan of their illustrations, and I always wanted to meet them. But it wasn't until a few years ago that I became friends with them. I'm glad I finally persuaded them to let me paint their portrait because Beth died last week at the age of 90.
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