This photo provided by the subject shows Larry Kanfer in his gallery in Champaign, Ill., in 2007, where the walls are dominated by pictures of barns and Midwestern landscapes. Kanfer hopes to publish ...

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Historic preservation isn’t just about big old houses and grand public buildings. Many appreciate structures of a more utilitarian nature - barns. Barns make some of the best ...

Town of Ira historian Dorothy Southard has compiled a historical look at the barns in her county. This is the fourth in a series on buildings that have become an iconic sight throughout this rural ...

PORTSMOUTH – To John Porter, New Hampshire’s barns are as iconic to its landscape as its lakes, fields and mountains. So much so that he refers to barns as “constructed landscape.” Because barns are ...

YAKIMA, Wash. — In the more than 50 years since Bill Carnahan created his first two paintings, he has captured thousands of picturesque old barns, landscapes and animals on canvas. Carnahan didn’t ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — As a kid in Oregon, Larry Kanfer’s horizons were dominated by the steep, green slopes and conic peaks of the Cascades. When his family moved to table-flat Urbana, Ill., Kanfer, ...