Eric Sloane "Spring Sunset" Oil/Masonite 24 x 36 Inches New England Barn Wooden

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Eric Sloane
Eric Sloane "Spring Sunset" Oil/Masonite 24 x 36 Inches New England Barn Wooden
1970

Name: Eric Sloane "Spring Sunset" Oil/Masonite 24 x 36 Inches New England Barn Wooden
Brand: Eric Sloane
Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

$14,500List Price

About the Item

An evening piece depicting the hours following sunset, where the crest of the sun’s light still shines on the edges of clouds. Orange peach and yellow highlight the edges of the dark blue cloud dotted sky, while a small road leads to a barn which dominates the foreground in the bottom quarter of the frame. Framed Size: 28 x 40 Inches Early life Eric Sloane was born in New York. As a child, he was a neighbor of noted sign painter and type designer Frederick W. Goudy. Sloane studied art and lettering with Goudy. While he attended the Art Students League of New York, he changed his name because George Luks and John French Sloan suggested that young students should paint under an assumed name so that early inferior works would not be attached to them. He took the name Eric from the middle letters of America and Sloane from his mentor's name. Career In the summer of 1925, Sloane "ran away from home" at 20, having squandered (he felt) his inheritance from his father. Working his way across the country as a sign painter, he created advertisements for everything from Red Man Tobacco to Bull Durham. Unique hand calligraphy and lettering became a characteristic of his illustrated books. Sloane eventually returned to New York City and settled in the Merryall area of New Milford, Connecticut, where he began painting rustic landscapes in the tradition of the Hudson River School. In the 1950s, he began spending part of the year in Taos, New Mexico, where he painted western landscapes and particularly luminous depictions of the desert sky. In his career as a painter, he produced over 15,000 works. His fascination with the sky and weather led to commissions to paint works for the U.S. Air Force and the production of a number of illustrated works on meteorology and weather forecasting. Sloane is even credited with creating the first televised weather reporting network, by arranging for local farmers to call in reports to a New England broadcasting station. Sloane also had a great interest in New England folk culture, Colonial daily life, and Americana. He wrote and illustrated scores of Colonial era books on tools, architecture, farming techniques, folklore, and rural wisdom. Every book included detailed illustrations, hand lettered titles, and his characteristic folksy wit and observations. He developed an impressive collection of historic tools which became the nucleus of the collection in the Sloane-Stanley Tool Museum in Kent, Connecticut. Sloane was married seven times. His last marriage, to wife Mimi, lasted from age 54 until his 1985 death in New York at age 80. He died from a heart attack while walking down the street to a luncheon held in his honor. A young woman who was a passer-by, saw Sloane go into cardiac arrest as he held onto a parking meter before collapsing to the sidewalk; she telephoned for help from a nearby phone booth. The luncheon celebration being held in his honor marked the publication of his memoir published at age eighty, Eighty: An American Souvenir.[1] Legacy Sloane's best known books are A Reverence for Wood, which examines the history and tools of woodworking, as well as the philosophy of the woodworker; The Cracker Barrel, which is a compendium of folk wit and wisdom; and Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake-1805, based on a diary he discovered at a local library book sale. His most famous painted work is probably the skyscape mural, Earth Flight Environment, which is still on display in the Independence Avenue Lobby in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum.[2] The Sloane-Stanley Museum is operated by the state of Connecticut to showcase Sloane's collection.

Creator:
Eric Sloane (1910-1985, American)
Creation Year:
1970
Dimensions:
Height: 24 in (60.96 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
Medium:
Masonite,Oil
Movement & Style:
American Impressionist
Period:
Late 20th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Dallas, TX
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU30023082073

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