Fishing Below a Covered Bridge, Vermont
Type:painting
Medium:Oil
Signed:Inscribed
Notes:
Inscribed lower left: [WEST]FORD BRIDGE / [CA]MBRIDGE VT; signed lower right: SLOANE
Eric Sloane ART FOR SALE
1905/10 New York City - 1985 New York City. Known for: Rural landscape painting, book illustration.
Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on February 27, 1905 in New York City to a well-to-do family. Early on, he took up an interest in art, spending many boyhood hours with neighbor and noted... Read full biography
Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on February 27, 1905 in New York City to a well-to-do family. Early on, he took up an interest in art, spending many boyhood hours with neighbor and noted font inventor, Frederic Goudy (Goudy Type). From Goudy, at an early age, he learned to hand paint... Read full biography
Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on February 27, 1905 in New York City to a well-to-do family. Early on, he took up an interest in art, spending many boyhood hours with neighbor and noted font inventor, Frederic Goudy (Goudy Type). From Goudy, at an early age, he learned to hand paint letters and signs. Some of Sloane's first clients included aviation pioneers flying out of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Many of those flyers insisted he paint the identifying marking on their planes.... Read full biography
Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on February 27, 1905 in New York City to a well-to-do family. Early on, he took up an interest in art, spending many boyhood hours with neighbor and noted font inventor, Frederic Goudy (Goudy Type). From Goudy, at an early age, he learned to hand paint letters and signs. Some of Sloane's first clients included aviation pioneers flying out of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Many of those flyers insisted he paint the identifying marking on their planes. In exchange for teaching him to paint, Wiley Post himself, taught the young Hinrichs to fly. After his first flight the young man fell in love with clouds and the sky, themes that would be central to his work for the rest of his life. Among his early... Read full biography
Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on February 27, 1905 in New York City to a well-to-do family. Early on, he took up an interest in art, spending many boyhood hours with neighbor and noted font inventor, Frederic Goudy (Goudy Type). From Goudy, at an early age, he learned to hand paint letters and signs. Some of Sloane's first clients included aviation pioneers flying out of Roosevelt Field, Long Island. Many of those flyers insisted he paint the identifying marking on their planes. In exchange for teaching him to paint, Wiley Post himself, taught the young Hinrichs to fly. After his first flight the young man fell in love with clouds and the sky, themes that would be central to his work for the rest of his life. Among his early clients was Amelia Earhardt, who bought his first cloud painting. Said to be the finest cloud painter of his generation, his largest cl... Read full biography
Eric Sloane - Art for Sale (8 available)
Winter Morn
Type:Painting
Size:21.00" x 33.75"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Skirting the Storm
Type:Painting
Size:27.00" x 47.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Stone Barn
Type:Painting
Size:24.00" x 26.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed
Notes:
SOLD for $25,000 at the Lone Star Art Auction in Dallas, Texas. Now accepting Eric Sloane consignments for our upcoming 2026 auction. For more information, visit the auction website at www.lonestarartauction.com, call the auction office at (469) 608-7600, or click the contact link below.
Sloane Illustrations
Type:Painting
Year:1950
Size:9.00" x 23.00"
Medium:Pen and ink
Signed:Signed
Notes:
Originals drawings for the book titled "SKIES and the ARTIST: How to Draw Clouds and Sunsets" by Eric Sloane; 1950 Published by Art Books for all NYC Set of 37 Drawings in collection of the 40 published
Red Winter Barn
Type:Painting
Size:20.87" x 29.37"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Signed lower left: SLOANE
Nostalgic Summer
Type:Painting
Size:23.88" x 42.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
'Nostalgic Summer' is a quintessential example of Eric Sloane's work, combining the artist’s personal reverence for the understated beauty of the old farmhouse and stone barn with dramatic lighting that emblazons the surrounding landscape in vivid reds and golds that evoke the changing seasons.
Autumn Sundown
Type:Painting
Size:21.50" x 33.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Unsigned
Notes:
Inscribed and signed lower left: Autumn Sundown Eric Sloane