This painting was a labor of love.  I enjoy painting loose and spontaneous, but also love to put in detail that is the essence of a subject like this. Being raised in a time of noticeable changes in our country we have seen the small town general stores, once in abundance, are now near extinction.  I was lucky that back in 1968  I  took my reference photos of this one, I never throw any thing away.  It was with an old black & white film polaroid camera,  but it enabled me to preserve the old store in time to paint later.