An original mixed-media painting, on paper
18x24" unframed, (mat size, 24x30")
$1,800.00, - (plus $25.00, pack and ship)
The wonderful old barns which defined us as an agrarian nation during the 19th
and early 20th century, are rapidly disappearing from the landscape, but it is not
the storms which are sweeping them away. They have fallen victim to farm
consolidations and changing agricultural methods, as well as suburban development,
such as the subject of this painting.
Some decades ago, when I spent an afternoon doing this expressionist study
of this particularly fine old specimen, with its high, gambrel roof, ventilation cupola
and extended bays, the structure was still standing, shimmering in the gusty wind and
the heat of the sun. Now it and the grain fields are long gone, consumed by an ever
expanding, suburban sprawl.
(click on image to enlarge)
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