The Haskell Barn

PeriodCirca 1968

Place MadeNavesink, New Jersey, U.S.A.

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions21 × 33.5 × 3 in. (53.3 × 85.1 × 7.6 cm)

SignedThe work is signed "Egan" in dark red paint at the lower left corner of the work.

ClassificationsLandscapes & Still Life

Credit LineGift of Laury Agnes Egan in Memory of Her Mother, Agnes Ricks Egan, 2023

Object number2023.2

DescriptionA scene of the old Haskell Barns, depicting the larger main barn structure at far left, with the five-stall horse barn wing as the main focus of the image. At right, an old hay wagon with remnants of its original blue paint. Pale yellow and tan tufts of dried grasses dot the barnyard in front of the stalls A pale blue sky looms above the barns, with hints of thin white clouds just visible. The painting retains its original frame of a medium brown angular beveled wood.
NotesAgnes Ricks Egan (1914 - 1997), a native of Oklahoma, received a B.S. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After extensive travel in Asia, Africa, and Europe, she continued her studies at the Art Students League in New York for three years, under such masters as Frank Vincent DuMond and famed anatomist George Bridgman. During her time in New York and shortly after, Ricks was a member of and exhibited at the National Arts Club and the Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Society Club (for women artists). Later, she became an exhibiting member of the Copley Society of Boston, the Oklahoma Art Association, the Princeton Art Association, the Somerset Art Association, and the Guild of Creative Art in Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, New Jersey. Ricks served as a charter member and instructor at the Guild of Creative Art. Besides being represented in galleries throughout the United States and the A. H. Riise Gallery in St. Thomas, Agnes Egan won many awards and prizes. She exhibited a the Monmouth Museum Brandywine Show, the Tri-State Competition sponsored by the Laird Company, the Guild of Creative Art, the Red Bank Festival of the Arts, and the Princeton Art Association. Agnes Ricks Egan also produced many small sculptures, which were noted for their whimsicality and which were shown at Bergdorf Goodman in New York as well as in galleries in Florida and New Jersey. In later years, Egan moved to Navesink, New Jersey, where she taught locally. Agnes Egan was renowned for her understanding of light effect, color, and her exemplary skills as a draftswoman. Predominantly a realist painter, she loved to create studies of Victorian houses, still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, though most of her landscapes included human elements, some reflecting her oceanside location. One of her most extensive series was set on St. Croix, USVI, featuring studies of local life, people, architecture, and landscapes rendered in acrylics, oil pastels, and pencil. In her lifetime, Agnes Ricks Egan created hundreds of paintings, drawings, and sculpture. Donor Laury Egan is her daughter.

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