America Remembered

Provenance

Surovek Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Donna Bennett, 1996
Schwarz Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, acquired from above

Note

Covered bridges became an important subject matter for Eric Sloane. He traveled to many parts of the country and created his paintings from memory. In his 1985 book, he described, “I wrote the first book about American covered bridges. Since then I probably have painted as many as there are in the country. It was an exciting period in my life, which afforded me a fine consciousness of Americana.”[1]

[1] Eric Sloane, Eighty: An American Souvenir (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985), n.p.