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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
"Summer in Vermont"
Oil on Masonite
41 x 72 inches
ca. 1960
Signed Lower Left
SOLD
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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
"Autumn"
Oil on Masonite
24 x 31 inches
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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
"New England, Sunday Morning"
Oil on Masonite
27 x 42 inches
Signed Lower Right
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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
"Grey Barn"
Oil on Masonite
23 1/2 x 32 1/2 inches
Signed Lower Left
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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
"Vermont February"
Oil on Masonite
24 x 35 inches
Signed Lower Left
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SLOANE,
Eric
American (1905-1985)
"Vermont"
Oil on Masonite
24 x 48 inches
Signed Lower Left
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Painter, illustrator and muralist, Eric Sloane produced many landscapes
of the Southwest and especially of New England. He wrote and illustrated
a number of books on Americana. An interest in Meteorology and aviation
led to his development of the "cloudscape".
Sloane was born Everard Jean Hinrichs in New York City in 1905. His
father was a wholesale meat broker, and Sloane grew up in a household
without any interest in the arts. He had the opportunity however, to
observe the work of a neighbor, sculptor George Gray Bernard. Later,
after his family moved to Long Island, Sloane lived near type designer
Frederic Goudy, who taught him lettering.
In 1929, attended the Yale School of Fine Art, and he joined
the Arts Students League in New York City the following year. At that
time he adopted the name Sloane. He enrolled in the New York School
of Fine and Applied Arts in 1935.
During the 1930s, Sloane's interest in aviation and weather led to the
painting of cloud formations, which he christened "cloudscapes"
and to the study of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He published several illustrated books on weather.
While studying old diaries for weather information, became interested
in early American farming and craftsmanship. He collected and sketched
handmade tools, and published several dozen books illustrating tools,
covered bridges, barns and other Americana. Good examples of his work
are found in his books An Age of Barns (1967, Funk and Wagnalls)
and I Remember America (1971, Funk and Wagnalls.)
Influenced by the Hudson River School in his painting, concentrated
on his landscapes as in "Pennsylvania Yesterday" (date unknown,
Gilcrease). He worked quickly and with rapid strokes, and often used
a pencil or a razor blade to work the wet paint.
As a muralist, worked in the Biltmore Hotel and the Morton Salt
Building in New York City, and in the American Museum of Natural History.
In 1975, he executed a mural for the new Air and Space Museum in Washington,
DC. Sloane died in New York City in 1985. Reference: page 984, American
Art Analog, Vol. III
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