Proud Gobbler and Hen

Wild turkeys became Vandruff’s signature subject and her paintings of them became hugely popular. Among her patrons were former President Lyndon B. Johnson, Texas Governors John Connally and Dolph Briscoe, and U. S. Senator John Tower, three other Texas governors, three state senators, mayors of Houston, San Antonio, and Kerrville, and Amarillo oilman L. R. Hagy. Her public commissions include murals in Texas and Oklahoma, including a mural of Palo Duro Canyon with quail for the First National Bank of Amarillo (now Bank of America). Gift of M. K. Brown.