Person
Mara Lind
Dublin Core
- 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
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Hay in Rain
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
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
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
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
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
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.