The Stone Barn

Provenance

Sale, Harlowe-Powell, Charlottesville, Virginia, July 24, 2010, lot 1262
Private collection, Connecticut

Related Works

Harvest, 1930–1985, oil on board, 19 x 47 inches; New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Shaker Barn, 1970, oil on board, 25¼ x 34⅝ inches; Maier Museum of Art at Randolph College, Lynchburg, Virginia

Note

Fascinated by early American culture, Eric Sloane extensively wrote about and painted the built and natural features that characterize America. Among these, barns were a favored subject, Sloane viewing stone barns as vestiges of America’s agrarian past. In The Stone Barn, Sloane sets the structure in a sea of autumn grass, emphasizing the vast farmland.