December Morning

Provenance

Private collection

Sale, Hindman, Chicago, Illinois, May 10, 2022, lot 107, from above

Note

December Morning highlights Eric Sloane’s appreciation for the American outdoors. Sloane created numerous images of marshlands with tall reeds emerging from the water and billowing cloudscapes overhead. In his writing, Sloane described the marsh as “the richest and most valuable land in the American nation,” continuing, “The water is pure and sweet, tinged to a faint wine hue by the juniper, a potent medicinal drink.”_[1]

_[1] Eric Sloane, I Remember America (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1971), n.p.