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Mara Lind

Mara Lind in her studio, about 1975. A black and white photograph from the mid 1970s of a woman painter in her late forties with short grey-streaked hair and a work shirt, standing in a barn studio on a farm beside a large unfinished canvas of soft horizontal bands of color, holding a wide brush, daylight from a big open barn door. View larger
Mara Lind in her studio, about 1975

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Title
Mara Lind
Description
American painter and printmaker. Lind lived on a farm outside Harlow for sixty years and painted the same fields in every season, first as landscapes and then as soft bands of color.
Date
1928–2009
Rights
Fictional demonstration content created for the Omeka demo sites. The artists and works are invented and the images were generated with AI (FLUX.2). Free to reuse (CC0 1.0).

In the collection

  • Hay in Rain

    Mara Lind · 1966

    Early and looser than the field paintings, made in one sitting from the studio window. The grey strokes are rain; the ochre mound is the haystack that would not dry.

  • Low Water

    Mara Lind · 1968

    Painted the dry August after the dam went in, when the river showed its stones. Lind kept the palette to the colors of wet and dry rock.

  • September Field

    Mara Lind · 1970

    The first of the field paintings. Lind said she painted the field until it stopped looking like a field and started looking like September.

  • Field at Dusk

    Mara Lind · 1971

    Lind painted the field behind her Harlow studio at the same hour for a whole autumn. The bands are less a horizon than a temperature: warm ground, the rust of last light, and the blue that arrives before the stars.

  • Night Field

    Mara Lind · 1974

    A single line of ochre holds the dark together. Lind said it was the porch light at the Halloran farm, seen from the road.

  • Tide Line

    Mara Lind · 1983

    Lind cut these lines on her only trip to the coast, from memory, in a motel room in Astoria. Each line is a little thinner than the one above it.