Eric Sloane
Blue Heron Fine Art
Buys & Sells 19th and early 20th Century American Paintings
By This And Many Other Artists.
Highest Prices Paid. Signed works only. Confidential and Prompt Reply.
Call 1-781-383-3210
 "Late Summer", Signed Eric Sloane,NA lower left. Oil on Masonite. 21" x 28" Price $ 
 "Early Autumn", Signed Eric Sloane, lower left. Oil on Masonite. 21" x 36 1/2" Price $
 "Late Sun", Signed Eric Sloane, lower left. Oil on Masonite. 24" x 36" Price $
Eric Sloane, American, (1905-1985).Eric Sloane was born Everard Jean Hinrichs in New York City. His earliest childhood recollections reflect an avid interest in art which led to his first career as a sign painter. Setting out in 1925, Sloane traveled throughout the Northeast, where he felt an immediate rapport with and love for the history, culture and longstanding icons of early American architecture: covered bridges, barns and homes dating to the colonial era. Here Sloane felt the spirit of the early Nation yet felt it to be a vanishing theater of Untied States history. With interest and devotion unparalleled by any U.S. artist, Sloane would write and paint from just this perspective for the next sixty years. Upon his return to the East, Sloane began studies at the Art Students League in New York under John Sloan. Adopting the pseudonym Sloane (after his mentor's name) and taking his first name Eric (from the word America), the transformation from a young, inspired sign painter to an important American artist and author began. A prolific member of the Hudson River School tradition of painting, he is generally accepted as an artistic genius. Over his lifetime, Sloane wrote thirty eight books. It is estimated that he created nearly 15,000 paintings, mostly oil on masonite. He painted one almost every day, often before lunch, striving to do better than the day before. Later in his life, he bought back or traded for some of his earlier work, which he destroyed by fire, contending it was inferior. While restoring a Connecticut farmhouse in the early 1950's he began to identify with the Early American settlers. He first moved to the Lake Candlewood area, then to Merryall, CT near New Milford, and in 1956, he moved to Warren, where he kept a home until 1985. It was at a Warren Library book sale that he is said to have discovered Noah Blake's diary, an original account of New England farm life in 1805. With Sloane's unique illustrations and commentary the diary became the framework for Sloane's most successful book, "Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805". Eric's spirit lives on today as if he's determined to keep the invincible Early American Spirit alive. One has only to read one of his books or view his paintings to be touched by his unfathomable human compassion. Credit: Falk, Who Was Who in American Art http://www.askart.com http://www.ericsloane.com |
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