Spring plowing

For most of her life Margit considered herself a farmer

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For Margit, spring was a season for preparing for the future. She’d put away her paints and work on the garden. <quote here>

  • ID: 1959 “Spring plowing”
  • Detail: X x X / … / …
  • Comment: Here, Margit needed to have the horses be white so that they’d show up against the darkness of the freshly turned earth. She solved that problem later by having the horses’ immediate background be unplowed. Was she bothered by white horses because her dad’s horses — and her husband’s — were never white?

  • ID: 60-12 “spring plowing”
  • Detail: 16″ x 20″ / Orig price $3 / 1st owner: R&F Nowland
  • Comment: Unlike the previous painting, here Margit makes it abundantly clear that it’s springtime, with a huge display of appropriately colored foliage.

  • ID: 61-02 “Cows in spring”
  • Detail: 16″ x 20″ / KEPT
  • Comment: Okay, so we’re not talking about plowing here. But with the same composition as other paintings, now cows are being pastured in the field as the trees are in full bloom.

  • ID: 62-03 “Spring plowing”
  • Detail: 16″ x 20″ / Orig price $5 / 1st owner: A Witt
  • Comment: Here the farmstead from the previous paintings has disappeared. With an orchard over the fence now, there’s no reason to have an opening in the fence as in 60-12.