The Landsverk Museum and Gift Shop

In the early 1930s, Margit’s dad and brother, the artistic Tarkjel and Halvor Landsverk, opened a small store at their farm on Highland Prairie. Here they displayed and sold…

What we have pictures of

  • Vintage postcards (from the store?):
    • Lincoln statue w/ Halvor
    • “Indian Chief” w/ Halvor
    • Adam & Eve hooked rug
    • Nisse & cartoon
    • Elephant vs hunter carving
    • Bears at fishing camp carving
  • Miniatures:
    • kubbestole
    • Polar bear
  • Large outdoor pieces
    • Lincoln bust
    • Aligator
    • Bear-Man fight
    • Baptismal font(?)
    • Indian princess on horse(?)
  • Busts of Tark & Helga?

We have many other artworks, like Tark’s skrin (carved in 1933). Were any of them displayed at the store at one time?

Looking for more information

Keep in mind, ultimately this website is about Margit. All else must be included with Margit in mind.

  • Re Margit:
    • Does she mention the store in any of her writings?
    • Did she participate/contribute in any way?
    • What was going on in her life at the time?
  • Re the store itself:
    • Did the “store” have an official name?
    • What years was it open? (Did it need to be registered as a business?)
    • What was displayed/sold there?
    • What objects were [later] sold to other places?
    • Are there good pictures of it? (Inside and out)
    • What other publicity do we have about it?
    • The stone kubbestol at the old Landsverk place was never part of the store at the stucco house, right?