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The Farmers’ Choice exhibition at the UND Art Collections Gallery included this untitled 1934 oil painting by Thorarin Snowfield (1897-1981) depicting a threshing scene. A native of Mountain, N.D., Snowfield studied art in New York City and Minneapolis. During the Great Depression, he created paintings of North Dakota “native scenes” for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). After the closing of the WPA, he made a modest living as an artist in Cavalier and Langdon, N.D. Creating scenes of Icelandic life in North Dakota during the early and middle 20th century, Snowfield is the only known artist who painted scenes from this portion of the state’s history.