Alpine Morning
by Eric Sloane (1905–1985)Oil on board
23 15/16 x 30 1/16 inches
Inscribed and signed lower right: – ALPINE MORNING / SLOANE
23 15/16 x 30 1/16 inches
Inscribed and signed lower right: – ALPINE MORNING / SLOANE
Information
Provenance
Private collection, Pennsylvania
Private collection, by descent from above, 1995
Sale, Sotheby’s, Online, July 9–20, 2021, lot 24, from above
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
