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This is an original oil painting from Wm Conrad Bowen that he painted in his studio on a 24”x18” gesso-coated cotton canvas.
As a kid, Conrad remembers Joseph Barnard White. Conrad’s mother told him many times that his grandfather, Thomas B Norris used to work for Joe White. Joe passed away in 1970. In his day, Joe run bustling farming and aquaculture/trout enterprises. His sons were involved in the businesses. Conrad attended school with a couple of his grandsons Jon and Grant. Eventually, Jon married Vickie and they moved into the homestead house overlooking the farm.
A lot of things have changed since the 70’s, but Jon & Vickie still run the farm and live in the old, but remodeled homestead. Last year, Conrad approached Jon about painting the old barns and sheds. Jon said it would be OK and Conrad finally got around to it this summer. Today, the huge big old barn near the house is in pretty bad shape (you can see blue sky in many places through the roof). When I talked to Jon, he said he considered re-roofing it a few years ago, but then he said “the cost was in 6 figures, and frankly just wasn’t worth it.” So it sits, as it is … for Conrad to paint. Just north of the barn is a fenced enclosure under a tractor trailer where some chickens roam and roost. Milling around the chickens were 2 or 3 free-range bunny rabbits hopping anywhere they wanted to go from the sheds and barn to the house. Bet if Conrad were to ask Vickie about them, chances are, she’d have names for each one of them!
This is an original oil painting from Wm Conrad Bowen that he painted in his studio on a 24”x18” gesso-coated cotton canvas.
As a kid, Conrad remembers Joseph Barnard White. Conrad’s mother told him many times that his grandfather, Thomas B Norris used to work for Joe White. Joe passed away in 1970. In his day, Joe run bustling farming and aquaculture/trout enterprises. His sons were involved in the businesses. Conrad attended school with a couple of his grandsons Jon and Grant. Eventually, Jon married Vickie and they moved into the homestead house overlooking the farm.
A lot of things have changed since the 70’s, but Jon & Vickie still run the farm and live in the old, but remodeled homestead. Last year, Conrad approached Jon about painting the old barns and sheds. Jon said it would be OK and Conrad finally got around to it this summer. Today, the huge big old barn near the house is in pretty bad shape (you can see blue sky in many places through the roof). When I talked to Jon, he said he considered re-roofing it a few years ago, but then he said “the cost was in 6 figures, and frankly just wasn’t worth it.” So it sits, as it is … for Conrad to paint. Just north of the barn is a fenced enclosure under a tractor trailer where some chickens roam and roost. Milling around the chickens were 2 or 3 free-range bunny rabbits hopping anywhere they wanted to go from the sheds and barn to the house. Bet if Conrad were to ask Vickie about them, chances are, she’d have names for each one of them!