Spencer Museum of Art The University of Kansas

Remembering the Family Farm

150 Years of American Prints

Barns by John C. Menihan
John C. Menihan United States, 1908-1992
Barns, 1937
Color Lithograph

Spencer Museum of Art: anonymous gift, 1998.0479 Menihan was born in Rochester, New York, and he studied at the University of Pennsylvania. It appears to be the beginning of the end for the central barn in this print – its ridgepole has begun to sag, doubtless from years of bearing the load of heavy snow in winter. Sources