Winter

Spending her life in Minnesota, Margit knew winter well

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In Margit’s winter, snow is fresh, usually still clinging to treelimbs and bushes. Roads and driveways are still snow-packed, never plowed or melted clean. And people are hard to find, probably holed up in their houses taking care of domestic chores.

  • ID: xx-xx [Winter road, red house]
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  • Comment: In this unusually cold picture (and as square as a window frame), snow covers everything but the side walls of a house up ahead.

  • ID: 69-13 “Winter in woods”
  • Details: 18″ x 36″ / Orig price: $25 / 1st owner: M Eide
  • Comment: Margit painted this winter stream as monochromatic as possible, like a black and white photograph. There’s no red house to add a splash of color. In fact it’s rare for Margit to portray a scene that has no evidence of man (a farm, a fence, a road…).