Sometime after the turn of the last century, Grand Marais artist and art lover Anna C. Johnson painted a charming portrait of an elderly woman in a jaunty red cap, balancing a bundle of sticks on her back.
Sometime after the turn of this century, someone stole that painting from the gallery that bears her family name and replaced it with a duplicate.
We need to get that painting back, Minnesota.
Johnson painted what she knew. The soaring trees of the North Woods. The winding paths of the Gunflint Wagon Road.
She made art and she taught art. She had a pet moose she liked to walk around town. Visitors to the Johnson family s log-hewn trading post could browse a gift shop stocked with her work paintings, pen-and-ink sketches, stained glass, ceramics fired at her home kiln.
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