SOLD Bucks County Barn
by Eric Sloane (1905–1985)24 x 47⅝ inches
Inscribed and signed lower left: BUCKS COUNTY / –ERIC SLOANE
SOLD
Provenance
The artist
Offenhender family, acquired from above, ca. 1940
Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, acquired from above, 1998
Private collection, Parsippany, New Jersey, acquired from above, 1998
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, from above, 2017
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, acquired from above, 2018
Daniel P. Abeloff, acquired from above, 2018
Trust of Daniel P. Abeloff
Sale, Bonhams, New York, New York, May 26, 2022, lot 86, from above
Exhibited
Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, The Artist’s Muse, November 25–December 23, 2017
Literature
The Artist’s Muse (Boston: Vose Galleries, 2017), 28.
Note: Eric Sloane viewed the barn as an important symbol of Americana. The artist himself described, “the early American barn, taking into consideration its reasons for being, I’ve found to be an exceptional and impressive subject,” continuing, “an old barn has an aura of persistence, stubbornly shrouded in the mood of its own time.”[1] Sloane explored farms throughout New England, but did not paint on location, choosing instead to create his depictions from memory.
[1] Eric Sloane, I Remember America (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1971), 56.
Artist Biography
By Nina Sangimino
I think in some ways I’m a failure because people think I’m a painter of barns and a writer of nostalgia… It’s not what I’ve been trying to do. I hate nostalgia. It’s a dreaded disease. [1]
—Eric Sloane
To view a painting by Eric Sloane of a quintessential New England covered bridge, with its weathered clapboard siding, worn dirt road, and Huck Finn–inspired children fishing in the brook below, one is touched by the familiarity of the scene. But what seems at first glance to be a simple version of Yankee Americana reveals deeper meaning when understood in the
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