My watercolor and ink painting of a beloved institution, Dairy Barn, a drive-thru convenience store that started in 1961 at a Northport dairy farm, and at its height operated 70 stores around Long Island. The distinctive red silos and split rail fences were a common sight (my hometown had two), and transactions were called out between the driver and clerk. Dairy Barn specialized, naturally, in milk, with distinctive glass bottles that harkened back to milkman days. I remember my mom often stopping there for bread, eggs, milk, and perhaps Entenmann’s or Drake’s cakes, the clerk calling out “Four seventy-two”, and my mom calling back “out of five”. The clerk would hand over a brown paper bag and change in one trip, and off we’d go, with three of us kids in the back. My painting depicts a 1976 scene, with a Monte Carlo, Stingray, and Ford Country Squire visible.

Each giclee print is one of an edition of 500, printed on archival Hahnemuhle paper, signed and numbered by the artist.