November Sunset
by Eric Sloane (1905–1985)19 7/8 x 19 7/8
Signed and inscribed lower left: Eric SLOANE / NA; on verso: NOVEMBER SUNSET / Eric SLOANE
Provenance
Private collection
Sale, Fairfield Auction, Newtown, Connecticut, November 19, 2005, lot 105, from above
Private collection, New York, New York, acquired from above
[With] Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York
Private collection, Orleans, Massachusetts, acquired from above, 2020
Sale, Bonhams, Marlborough, Massachusetts, September 21, 2022, lot 49
Exhibited
Questroyal Fine Art, LLC, New York, New York, Eric Sloane: Taking Us Home, November 8–30, 2019
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
