Summer haying

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Margit doesn’t depict horse-drawn wagons out of sentimentality. That was the technology she had grown up with. We have pictures (taken by Margit?) of her husband Palmer plowing with a team of horses, atop the tobacco wagon, and harvesting using horse-power. If she were painting today, maybe she’d be drawing tractors and combines.

  • ID: 59-02 “Haying”
  • Details: 16″ x 20″ / KEPT

    Check out the revision Margit made to this painting!

  • 60-14 “Haying”
  • Details: 16″ x 20″ / Orig price: $3 / Initial owner: R&F Nowland
    Compare this painting with the one done only a year or two earlier. Now the hills look more like the Root River valley’s, the fields aren’t as flat, and even the wagon isn’t as aligned the frame but rides with the flow of an fields. Also, the whole scene is more framed by mature trees.

  • ID: 71-15 “Haying”
  • Details: 14″ x 27″(see note below) / Orig price: $30 / Initial owner: S Oian
    One of Margit’s more successful paintings, this image was long enough to serve as the cover (front and back) of the publication Three Landsverks.

    Note: The measurements Margit wrote in her records was 18″ x 30″. However, the actual painting is longer, at 14″ x 27″.

Others: 60-10 “Haying” / 61-10 “summer haying” / …