• ID: [boys in boat]
• Details: X x X
  In this peaceful scene two boys (her oldest sons?) are enjoying time fishing.

• ID: [going fishing]
• Details: X x X
  In this early painting Margit shows a young man with a fishing pole. the body of water he’s going to isn’t revealed.

• ID: [car on highway]
• Details: X x X
  Margit may still be working on perspective, but she’s including a lot of detail in bringing the scene to life, from powerlines to rock outcroppings along a curving road disappearing into the setting sun. (Margit rarely paints a straight road). Her most unusual element may be the passing car. For all the roads she paints, Margit may not have attempted another car until she was commissioned to do “Jalopy”.

• ID: [summer stream rapids]
• Details: X x X
  In place of the winding road, here Margit uses a winding stream as the moving focus. And as usual, the stream is flowing toward the viewer, while traffic on roads is going deeper into the picture.

• ID: [rocky lake]
• Details: X x X
  In this early painting the tree is starting to take on more character. But what’s unusual here is how rocky the shoreline is. Note that in the far center there appears to be the graceful lines of a small boat. She would place many more small boats (usually a canoe) on future lakes and rivers.

• ID: [deer farm shocks]
• Details: X x X
  In this early painting the pale coloring conjures early fall. Of course the cornshocks and the antlered deer support that.

• ID: 59-06 “Skating”
• Details: 10″ x 12″ (vertical) / Initial owner: E. Olson

Margit was familiar with farmkids skating on icy cow ponds. But here the bridge makes the body of water look more like a natural pond.

Note that for all the winter scenes Margit would paint, it’s not known that she created another one where the water was frozen over—which is of course necessary for skating. She never again showed anybody needing the water to be frozen.