The History
Purchased on a hunch in a Connecticut gallery, the paintings have been a part of Preste family history for nearly 50 years.
This is a story of truly, humble beginnings.
John Preste was an owner-operator truck driver in the 1970s. It was on one of his trips that he first saw the barn paintings in a Connecticut art gallery. What he was told in the gallery is now part of Preste family lore.
The paintings were one-of-a-kind, painted as a favor for friend on reclaimed barn-siding by American artist, Joseph Henry Sharp. It was possible, the siding was actually pulled from the barn depicted in the square painting. It is also possible, there was a third painting that John was unable to acquire on his first trip to the gallery. He took the square and vertical format paintings home to his wife and five children in Pompton Plains, New Jersey. When he returned to the gallery a few months later, the third painting was sold.
A few years later, the paintings were moved to Sussex County, when the family relocated to Vernon, New Jersey in the summer of 1977. John passed away in May 2003, leaving the paintings to his wife, Mary Ann Preste. In the summer of 2022, the paintings were moved to Pike County, PA, still in the family estate, after the passing of Mary Ann Preste in May 2022.
The five children of John and Mary Ann now seek to have the paintings moved to a new, permanent home with a collector or within a museum. They've sought help around the world from museums, auction houses, galleries, and universities.
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