In his booklet “Three Landsverks”, Dr. Marion Nelson arranged Margit’s paintings by season (after a short intro of her early work). It’s easy to see why he organized her works by the seasons they represent. You probably can’t find a painting you can’t assign to a season, since Margit was very aware of the times of the year for which she was creating a landscape.

In her records, Margit gave a title/description to each of her paintings. She mentions the name of a season in 250 of her over 600 entries:

• Winter = 91 (for example, Winter sunset and Winter moon)
• Spring = 37
• Summer = 32 (for example, Summer stream and Summer haying)
• Fall/Autumn = 94

Note: We counted only instances that mentioned a season by name. We did not take into account descriptions like “October Morn” or those that merely suggest a season by including words like “apple blossoms”, “red maple” or “soft snow & sleigh”.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that several of Margit’s clients arranged paintings in seasonal groupings. Some requested a set of paintings. Here’s a set of paintings that were designed as tall panels (14″w x 20″h).

Mindrum’s art, like nature itself, changed with the seasons, about which she wrote, “All have their own pleasure.” Behind them, she believed, was a God who gave special meaning to each.

Minnesota History magazine, 2000

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