Margit Mindrum – Her life and art (home page)

1: Margit’s Life

2: Margit’s Family

• Father Tarkjel
• Mother Helga
• Brother Ole
• Sister Gunhild
• Brother Halvor
• The Landsverk Museum and Gift shop

3: Margit’s Paintings

• Gallery (of select pictures on this site)
• Early art and watercolors (1950s)
• Paintings (~1960 to 1975) ===>
• Exhibitions and news coverage
  • 1971 (Houston MN)
    • Houston County News
    • La Crosse Tribune
  • 1990 (St Paul MN) —
  • 2000 (Decorah IA) Exhibition —

4: Margit’s Memoir

• How the book happened
• Getting the book published
• The book’s contents
  • Forward
  • Chapters
  • Epilogue
• The book’s artwork
• Promotions and reviews

5: Margit’s correspondence

• Round Robin letters (selections)
• Family history
  • “Dear Jonathan”
  • Landsverk
  • Mindrum
  • Oian
  • Johnson
• Last letters to her daughter

Others: Catalog / Library / Blogposts /

• The Landsverk Museum and Gift shop
  • Outdoor pieces
  • Replicas
  • Postcards
• Landsverk Family Farmsteads on HP
• Tarkjel Landsverk – his art and poetry
• Gunhild’s story

Focus on pictures by theme and story

1. Early Watercolors
2. First Framed
3. “Like Ours”
4. Grand Champion
5. Highland Prairie Church
6. Fountain Lutheran Church
7. Stone Church
8. Specific farmsteads
9. Farming & farm animals
10. Deer (& other wild animals?)
11. Winter
12. Rivers
13. Lake with canoe
14. Mountains
15. Odd subjects (Jalopy, panels…)
16. Winter Sunset (including “Unfinished”)

By Bible verse:

• The Lord is My Shepherd
• He Leadeth Me Beside the Still Waters
• Thou Preparest a Table Before Me
• I Lift Up Mine Eyes

Paintings in the fam / List of early