Most of the categories that this website puts paintings into relate to the composition or layout of the elements on the canvas. There’s a road and/or a barn and/or a stream in this arrangement, so we’ll categorize it with other “road-barn-stream” paintings. But this category, “Spring”, doesn’t depend on the how the elements are arranged. Many settings can have this season applied to them.

Margit added the tag “spring” (or “summer” or “winter” or “fall”) to many of her paintings. She was very conscious of the seasons. If it’s an outdoor landscape (and which of her paintings weren’t?), it must fall into a season.

Surprisingly, spring seems to appear in much less than a fourth of Margit’s paintings. You could think that, for someone who painted almost exclusively during the winter months, Margit would be dreaming—and drawing—about spring landscapes. But there are many more fall, summer and even winter scenes than spring ones.

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Notable other spring paintings:

• Horses plowing a field (see Spring plowing)
• …