Living in farm country, and being a farmer herself, of course Margit created paintings of farms. Several distinct compositions emerge from her farm paintings. Here are two that you could call “farm down the road” and “farm across the road”.
Farm down the road
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- Comment: Even though this painting is set in the fall, with one tree having lost most of its leaves already, the sun is shining bright enough to cast a distinct shadow across the road.
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Farm across the road
- ID: 61-25 “Fall road”
- Details: 16″ x 20″ / Orig price: $5 / S Cole
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- ID: 69-21 “Fall color house bluff”
- Details: 18″ x 40″ / Orig price: $25 / V Lempke
- Comment: Exceptionally long
- ID: 73-12 “summer evening house mt scene”
- Details: 20″ x 30″ / Orig price $30 / 1st owner: I&B Paulson
- Comment: Here the background hills have grown beyond the rounded ridges (Cushion Peak notwithstanding) of Margit’s familiar terrain.
Margit Mindrum 