Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad, Mixed Media Modernist Painting Collage Nantucket Whirligig Americana Folk Art, c.1990’s

Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad (American, b. 1953).
Graphite, pastel, and paper collage painting
“Still Life with Quilt and Nantucket Whirligig”
depicting a mixed media still life collage with a antique Nantucket sailor boy whirligig drawing over a Native American quilt pattern.
cut, torn paper assemblage collage.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Bearing a Groveland Gallery label with title, verso.

Provenance: Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Distinguished corporate collection, Minnesota.
Framed; height: 30 in x width: 38 in. Sheet; height: 22 1/2 in x width: 30 in.

Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad has been a working artist for 40 plus years. She holds BFA and MFA degrees from the University of Minnesota.

She worked as a public muralist completing seven murals around the Midwest. Her work has been exhibited widely in galleries around the United States. She is best known for her abstract and landscape art, and sculpture. She currently resides in California but is part of the art culture in her hometown of Minnesota.
Mary Ingebrand-Pohlad divides her time between her Minnesota and California studios and is currently the Executive Producer of an independent documentary film on the Mexican migrant workers of Coachella Valley.
Her Still life studies are studies in light, pattern and texture. Gardens are a great source of inspiration with the same lyricism in the graceful bend of a stem as in the gesture of the figure. Pastel landscapes are inspired by her travels. Migrants working in the fields are scenes of everyday life in Thermal and Mecca, California. In addition to being an artist she is an accomplished art collector and a trustee of the Palm Springs Art Museum, Ingebrand-Pohlad has been collecting art for decades, with a particular interest and fascination with the Coachella Valley, California and vintage Southwest desert landscape paintings This area has drawn artists to seek out and depict the landscape in all of its changing colors and hues, which has been captured in both realist and impressionist renderings. Her collection includes works by Maynard Dixon, Edgar Alwin Payne, Louise Everett Nimmo, Millard Sheets, and William Wendt, among others.Her work is included in over 250 private and corporate art collections as well as in 2 museum collections.