Mail Pouch Tobacco Barn Painter

Harley retired from barn painting in 1995 because of federal regulations banning the advertisement of tobacco products.
Mail pouch tobacco barn painter. Mail pouch barn repainted in 1989 by famous barn painter harley warrick. All the best mail pouch tobacco barn painting 33 collected on this page. The majority of the mail pouch tobacco barns or mail pouch barns as they are also called were located in indiana. See more ideas about old barns barn and barn art.
A mail pouch tobacco barn or simply mail pouch barn is a barn with one or more sides painted with a barn advertisement for the west virginia mail pouch chewing tobacco company bloch brothers tobacco company the program ran from 1891 to 1992 and at its height in the early 1960s about 20 000 mail pouch barns were spread across 22 states. The practice of barn painting continued but in 1974 the act was amended. Over his 55 year career warrick painted or retouched over 20 000 mail pouch signs. 24 at age 76.
The mail pouch tobacco barn becomes an official historical landmark when lyndon b. Johnson passed the highway beautification act in 1965 this ended a lot of highway advertising. Mail pouch tobacco barns followed by 360 people on pinterest. Note initials of harely warrick on lower corner of barn.
Warrick also was. He spent the last years of his life painting birdfeeders and other small mail pouch memorabilia. Between 1946 and 1992 harley warrick often working by himself made the mail pouch barn an american landmark by painting the mail pouch chewing tobacco advertisement on the. Warrick october 5 1924 november 24 2000 was an american barn painter best known for his work painting mail pouch tobacco advertising on barns across 13 states in the american midwest and appalachian states.
Mail pouch discontinued the barn advertising in the early 1970 s but harley continued painting barns for farmers who paid him directly for that service. When he retired he was the last of the mail pouch sign painters in america. Between 1920 and about 1992 the bloch brothers tobacco company based in wheeling w va paid farmers to allow painters to paint one or more sides of their barn with an advertisement for mail pouch tobacco. This structure is one of the last barns painted by harley and is located near his hometown.