A large-format landscape of a barn — a pink barn occupies the entire center of the 25 by 34 inch composition, its gambrel roof and vertical board-and-batten walls filling the paper from left to right. Trees frame the barn at both sides, their branches described in dark pencil against the deep plum and red-purple surround. The barn is rendered in overlapping pink watercolor and pastel washes with pencil structure, the siding's vertical boards indicated with downward parallel lines. A green shed or outbuilding appears at the right. At the lower center a small gate or fence element sits before the barn's entrance.
The pink barn against the deep plum background creates the most intense color contrast in the landscape series, the saturated pink of the barn popping forward from the surrounding darker tones. The barn's scale — filling most of the large format — gives it a monumental quality: this is not a barn in a landscape but a landscape organized around a barn, the building the world's primary fact.
Among all the landscape works in the collection (1491, 1653, 1654, 1660), this is the most architecturally focused: the landscape organized around a specific built structure rather than natural elements. The barn is drawn with structural attention to its form — the gambrel roof's profile, the board-and-batten pattern, the proportions — while being rendered with the same free colorism of the other large mixed-media works.