Gwen Frostic was, until her death in 2001, one of the Midwest’s most treasured artists. The Michigan native—who never married, never drove, and lived until the day before her 95th birthday—was known for block prints of morel mushrooms, forest trillium, barn owls, birch bark trees, the first violets of spring, the amphibians in her beloved “frog pond,” and more. Despite a 1906 fever (likely Polio) that forever affected the mobility of her hands, Frostic would sketch images in nature, carve those images onto linoleum blocks, then stamp them onto deckle-edged…
