Eric Sloane

born New York City, New York, 1905; died New York City, New York, 1985

BiographyStarting in the 1920s, Eric Sloane began work as a sign painter traveling across the Northeast finding work as he went. He fell in love with early American architecture and it became the primary subject of much of his later work. He extended his travels south landing in Taos, New Mexico in 1926 and joining the artist colony there. After returning East, he studied at the Art Students League in New York under John Sloan. He became a prolific artist and author 38 books and creating nearly 15,000 paintings, mostly oil on masonite. Sloane is also credited with being the foremost authority on Early American rural architecture and Early American tools. His many books of paintings and drawings, and especially his book A Museum of Early American Tools, are considered the most important historical source works on the subjects.

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http://www.ericsloane.com/
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