We’re looking for more info on some paintings
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Margit created more than 600 paintings. And she kept pretty good track of the start of their lives (see Margit’s recordkeeping). But over the intervening years we’ve lost track of many of them. At least one painting was lost in a house fire. Another was just thrown away. Many have changed hands at auctions or garage sales (and hopefully their current owners, whoever they are, appreciate their piece of art).
We’re looking to have a photo-record of as many paintings as possible (we have less than 1/3rd identified at present). That means matching their image (if we can get one) with Margit’s original tracking number. Below are a few we have photos of, but we aren’t sure where they “fit” (and we’d love to have a better picture of them!).
Note: Click on an image to see it bigger, though the image quality may not get better.

ID = _____? [farmstead]
Source: A snapshot from the late 1950s (see Going to the fair)
This early painting shows a farmstead with a small house, a windmill, and a barn. The season may be spring (because of the lighter foliage to the left of the house). A barbed-wire fence (with a picket-fence gate) stretches across the front—and “lollipop” trees are in the background.
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ID = _____? [Birch cluster by road]
Source: A snapshot from the late 1950s (see Going to the fair)
In this scene (done in portrait orientation) a group of birches on the left dominates the picture as the road travels diagonally from behind the birches to the right foreground.
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ID = _____? [Birches by lake]
Source: A snapshot from the late 1950s (see Going to the fair)
The scene is similar to those discussed in Water with canoe, but coming from a snapshot that would pre-date all those examples except the oldest “Lake with boat” (52-02).
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ID = _____? [Mountains with evergreens]
Source: A snapshot dated “Jul 69”
A rocky mountain with a lake in the foreground and tall evergreens.
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ID = _____? [Like ours]
Yes, this is a typical Like ours, so it’s likely a larger picture. Trouble is, Margit painted so many of this scene that we don’t know which one this is. Likely date range: 1962 to 1965.
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ID = _____? [Country road with split-rail fences]
Possibly spring because of the lighter leaves/blossoms on the tree at center-left. But hey, it could be fall too.
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ID = _____? [Spring comes to the farm]
Probably spring, because of similarities with several spring scenes.
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ID = _____? [Lone tree]
Definitely a “Lone Tree” painting. But which?