Forest Interior
by Eric Sloane (1905–1985)23⅞ x 60 inches
Signed and inscribed lower left: ERIC SLOANE N.A.
Provenance
The artist
Private collection, Pennsylvania, acquired from above
Sale, Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 6, 2022, lot 82, 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