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Margit Mindrum had very little training in art. Some counsel from her brother Halvor Landsverk, an accomplished woodcarver who had learned the fundamentals of drawing through a correspondence course, was the extent of it. A Houston County farmer’s wife and a mother, Mindrum did not begin to paint until after the age of 50. Her medium was Carter’s watercolors, an opaque gouache-type paint that she bought in small jars at the dime store, and her subject matter was almost exclusively her environment in rural southeast Minnesota.

Haying captures the essence of south-eastern Minnesota summers with convincing perspective and shading arrived
at more through observation than the application of academic rules.

Early art and watercolors (rugs, quilts and early paintings) Other artwork

Margit did NOT appreciate comparisons to folk artists like Grandma Moses or regionalists like Grant Wood. She may have accepted comparisons to Robert Wood, whose “October Morn” seems to be a theme.

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