Barns, MAIL POUCH BARN MURAL, BROWN COUNTY, INDIANA
Harley E. Warrick or another barn painter used an attractive yellow color, edged with black, to paint the Bloch Brothers signature Mail Pouch sign on this barn near Nashville in Brown County, Indiana. Harley mixed his own paint, using three times as much pigment as was normally available in commercial paint mixes so that he could paint the barn siding with a single coat. He often used 40 to 60 gallons of paint each week, and wore out 25 trucks during a career that lasted almost 50 years. Harley painted his barns freehand, and usually completed two barns a day, six days a week. He painted on a “swing stage” platform assembled with wooden planks and ropes, hooked to the barn rafters or eaves with coping hooks.
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