Red Winter Barn

Provenance

Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, New York, March 6, 2008, lot 61
Private collection, New York, New York

Related Work

Untitled – Red Barn and Hunter [Snow Scene], c. 1956-58, oil on masonite, 24 x 22 ¾ inches; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

Note

Eric Sloane described the light in his barn paintings, noting that, “there is a certain time of day when the sun is low, the shadows become deeper, the light becomes brighter, and the distant hills loom ‘nearer.’”[1] He held deep admiration for stone farm buildings, calling them “monumental,” and remarking that so few remained in the New England countryside as wooden versions began to replace them. Sloane studied at the Art Students League of New York and became a celebrated painter and chronicler of early American life.

[1] Eric Sloane, I Remember America (Ballantine Books, 1971), 61, 66.