The “See Ruby Falls” barns are rightly famous because there were so many of them, and so many — even though faded — can still be seen. But take a drive through just about any rural area of America where 50-year-old farming structures are still standing, and you’ll find that barns pitched more than tourist attractions. A farmer could get a good paint job for the barn by agreeing to tout a product. For the advertiser, it was cheap. A little paint and a few hours of a painter’s time, and the advertiser could have a large billboard that would last a lifetime. You don’t see these too much any more, and the landscape is less interesting without them.

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Mail Pouch barn

Price: $75

11 x 14, pen and ink and colored pencil, on Bristol board

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Bidgood Hall is a quiet giant of a building on the west side of the Quad at the University of Alabama. It is part of the business college complex and at any time of the day when the University is in session, it is covered with students. Rarely does it have a peaceful moment, as depicted in this pen and ink drawing.

This minimalist pen and ink drawing attempts to capture the building’s calm strength.

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11 x 14, Pen and ink on Bristol board

Price: $125

(This is an original piece, not a print.)

11 x 14, Pen and ink on Bristol board

Price: $125

(This is an original piece, not a print.)

Toumey Hall was constructed in 1888 and is currently the home of the Blount Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Alabama. For more than 70 years, from 1926 to 1999, it was the home of the University’s Army ROTC unit.