A side view of a dilapidated barn with snow covered mountains behind.

The photograph is dominated by a dilapidated barn in the centre of the frame viewed from across a field. On the right is a stand of poplars. This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

A bird flies over a desolate looking barn. This is the barn mentioned on page 194 of 'A Wider Sky' (Gomer, 1991) " ...one day I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood beside the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did so the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

A closer view of a dilapidated barn near Trevelin.This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' (Gomer, 1991) on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."

This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia." See also slides 4689/210-211.

A barn in the centre of the frame in the middle distance. On the right is a stand of poplars. This is the barn off Avenida John D Evans, Trevelin photographed in 4689/196 & 4689/198. It is also the barn mentioned in 'A Wider Sky' on page 194 "...and so I continued until, one day, I drew onto a canvas an old wooden barn that stood off the Avenida John D Evans. I started to paint and as I did the colours became grey and dull. It was my forty-fifth canvas and I knew the spell was broken. I never painted another picture of Patagonia."