Please answer the following question: What key details about clara mairs can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: clara gardner mairs -lrb- ; 1878 -- 1963 -rrb- 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 built the first grain mill in dakota county on the vermillion river . samuel mairs died in 1891 and abigail moved a 13-year-old clara and her three younger siblings , sam , helen , and agnes to st. paul , minnesota . clara attended the mount vernon junior college and seminary in washington d.c. from 1895 to 1897 . she also trained at the institute of art in st. paul . in the 1910s she attended the pennsylvania academy of fine arts and studied with impressionist landscape painter daniel garber . mairs returned to st. paul by 1918 and supervised the nimbus club , an informal art group formed to allow artists to work from a live model . a young artist named clement haupers also attended the nimbus club . though he was 22 years younger than her , the two would become lifelong companions . they held two-person exhibits at local art galleries and entered many of the same art shows . in 1923 , mairs and haupers traveled to paris where they studied sculpture with antoine bourdelle at the academie colarossi and painting with andre lhote at the academie montparnasse . mairs also briefly attended the academie julian . the pair toured italy and spent a winter in algiers before returning to minnesota in 1925 . they later frequented the kettle river in pine county , and created paintings of the people and landscape . mairs then turned her artistic energy towards printmaking before she and haupers returned to paris in 1928 . she began experimenting with etching techniques and was influenced by jean lurcat 's gros point panels . her visits to the zoo inspired tapestries depicting white gibbons and zebras . beginning in paris and influenced by her earlier work in textile design , mairs created colorful five by six foot wall...
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- caption is self-portrait -lrb- 1953 -rrb-- death date is 24 may 1963- field is painting , printmaking- birth date is january 5 , 1878- name is clara mairs- image is clara mairs self-portrait -lrb- 1953 -rrb- . jpg- birth place is hastings , minnesota- alma mater is st. arts paul institute of art pennsylvania academy of fine