Lily Spandorf, an Austrian artist who emigrated to the United States in 1959, lived in Washington, D.C.’s Dupont Circle and worked as a contributing artist for the Washington Star newspaper from 1960 ...

It used to be that whenever an old building in D.C. was about to be torn down, a tiny woman with a thick Austrian accent appeared. Pulling a drawing board and little pots of ink and paint out of her ...