Interior - Senator Hendrickson's Barn

Artist Henry Thomas Gulick

Period1953

MediumOil on masonite

Dimensions21.75 × 14.5 in. (55.2 × 36.8 cm)

SignedSigned lower left, "H. T. Gulick." Signed on reverse, "H. T. G. Sep. '53."

ClassificationsLandscapes & Still Life

Credit LineGift of the Estate of Miss Laura Harding, 1994

Object number1994.11.2

DescriptionDepiction of a large barn interior in tones of brown, gray and tan. Two large overhead joists attach to posts with knee braces. A horizontal wall five boards high defines the foreground, which is wood plank flooring. The end wall of the barn has vertical studs, to which horizontal siding is attached. Hay is stacked in the loft on the left, with more on the ground floor to the right. A square frame in the distance that extends from the ground floor to the top of the loft provides access for farm hands when the barn is full of hay. The speckles on the ground floor planks may represent pigeon droppings.

NotesThe interior of the main barn on the Sen. William Henry Hendrickson farm located north of Holland Road in Holmdel, Monmouth County, and west of Laurel Avenue. The pecularities of the framing such as heavy overhead beams or joists and knee braces indicate it had originally been an early New World Dutch barn that was reoriented and reroofed in the nineteenth century.

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