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Show The Park Record A-4 The Park Record. I know something you don't know! Don't let important news pass you by Subscribe to The Park Record | Chose a print or eEdition subscription, or both. In Summit County - $48 per year | Outside of Summit County - $72 per year For details call: (435)649-9014 or Email: circulation@parkrecord.com YOUR SUCCESS IS OUR PRIORITY. Put our 42 years of trusted experience to work for you... Call us today!* (435) 640-5682 (435) 640-4309 *Call anytime for free market information. Continued From A-3 The farm inspires when you get off the road," Smith says. Her artist's eye trains on the barn, and the acreage, including the willow trees, around the building adds to the setting. The white paint reflects light all year, she says. The shape of the building, meanwhile, has its own contrasts with its cylinders and flat surfaces, Smith says, describing a fascination with the geometry of the barn. "It's the romantic idea. It's part of a familiar history that doesn't exist anymore," she says. Smith has lived in the Park City area since 2000 and spent eight years locally in the 1970s and 1980s. She remains one of the area's prominent artists. Her im- Brown & Company SILVER CREEK MINI RANCH DREAM! Open and Bright 3 Bedrooms on 2.5 Acres Put your finishing touch on the walk-out apartment and enjoy the sportcourt, barn and spectacular 360 degree panorama. Priced to please @$539,000 Call 435-649-5551 or 702-595-6930 ages of the McPolin Farm, made with watercolors, are some of the area's best known works featuring the barn. It could take a few hours to finish a painting, Smith says. "If it weren't in its setting, it wouldn't be as beautiful," Smith says, adding, "From every angle, it's interesting." A cover shot Rick Pieros, who lives in Cottonwood Heights after having lived in Park City for 15 years starting in the early 1990s, has not succeeded in capturing the photograph he wants to of the McPolin Farm. The professional photographer has made at least 100 images of the farm in the past 20 or so years, but he has never shot it splashed in colors arcing across the sky. "In my wildest dreams, I'd love to get it with a rainbow," he says. Pieros owned a photography gallery on Main Street for five years in the time after the 2002 Winter Olympics, saying images of the farm were the top sellers. In the years since, though, he says, the National Garage in Old Town, another iconic historic building in Park City, sells the best. Pieros chose a wintertime image of the McPolin Farm as the cover of his 2011 photography book, "Park City Past & Present." "There was no doubt that was going on the cover. Eighty percent of the buying decision is based on the cover," he says. Pieros talks about a picturesque setting when describing his interest in the barn and the surrounding land as a subject for his photography, saying the property welcomes people to Park City. He sees the angles in the architecture of the barn itself as a draw for a photographer as well. The winter is his favorite season to shoot images. He says wintertime photography at the McPolin Farm is best done in the morning. As the day progresses, Pieros says, the front of the barn falls into the shadows. "You get a better feeling of isolation in the winter," he says. ‘Synonymous with Park City' Tom Mills, a photographer who sells images of scenes of Park City at the Park Silly Sunday Market and elsewhere, has not made an image of the barn to put WELCOME TO CL UD NINE $59 Sat/Sun/Mon/Tues, August 3-6, 2013 LOCALS LIFT PASSES* CHRISTOPHER REEVES/PARK RECORD Lanny Barnard, a painter, says she looks at the simplicity of the barn at the McPolin Farm as she creates a work. She says a farm painting could take two weeks or longer to finish. up for sale in perhaps four years. At that time, he shot a photograph depicting a winter scene looking southward, in the direction of Park City. He also took one in the fall looking toward the north. He says sales of the images since then have been just "so-so," but he has them available nonetheless. "They come in specifically looking for a photo of the barn," Mills says. "They seem to understand that it's sort of synonymous with Park City and just ask, ‘Do you have a photo of that barn on the way into town.'" Mills talks of a small stream that runs through the farm's acreage as one of the details a photographer looks for in an image when training the lenses on the barn. As a photographer working in Park City, Mills says, it is almost a requirement he have an image of the McPolin Farm for customers to consider as they browse his photographs. Mills lived in Park City for 16 years before moving to Salt Lake City 1 1/2 years ago. Some seek an image of the barn with the giant American flag draped over the side that faces S.R. 224. He has not shot such a photograph, he must tell them. "I just see some pretty cool barn design, as far as barns go," he says. "It's got a lot of neat windows, a lot of details going on the door." So simple in structure Lanny Barnard, an oil painter in the impressionistic style who lives in Salt Lake City, has a gallery on Main Street with her paintings hanging on the walls and antiques set out almost everywhere else. Three of her paintings on display at the gallery are of the McPolin Farm. She recently finished another one and plans more in the fall, winter and spring. Over the past 16 years, Barnard says, she has painted images of the barn upward of 55 times. "Every time I sell a barn painting, I paint another one," she says. For Barnard, one of the draws of the McPolin Farm as a subject is its design, "so simple," she says. Many barns she sees have decorative features, but not the one in Park City, Barnard says, commending its careful treatment over the years. "It's been taken care of so beautifully. Most barns you see have been destroyed in different ways," she says. As Barnard paints the McPolin Farm she especially studies the barn, looking at the details like she would a person if she was painting a portrait. "I love the simplicity of the barn, the ways the windows are structured," she says, adding, "Barns almost have faces, to me." It could take two weeks or longer to finish a painting of the McPolin Farm, she says. The fall colors in the background may highlight one of her paintings. Or, the white barn set amid a snowy winter scene makes an attractive painting, she says. "The barn is so beautiful during the different seasons," she says. "When I drive up to Park City and see it, I have to paint it again." 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