RARE DRAWING BY AMERICAN MASTER PAINTER ERIC SLOANE 8 TITLED & SIGNED - FROM IMPORTANT/STRONG PROVENANCE Start Price USD 750.00 Current Price USD 750.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Friday, May 09, 2008 End Time Friday, May 16, 2008 Location New York, New York See more about 'RARE DRAWING BY AMERICAN MASTER PAINTER ERIC SLOANE 8' Description You are bidding on a fantastic AND VERY RARE Beautiful Framed Original Signed Ink & Wash Drawing on Paper by American Master Painter ERIC SLOANE (1905-1986).   This is the eighth of nine images by the Artist that I will be offering on ebay.   This drawing has a very strong Auction / Estate provenance (see below).   His works are collected by several museums, art galleries, private and public collections worldwide. There are several links, notes and articles on the web about this amazing artist, including web sites dedicated to him. Feel free to do your own search and learn more about his amazing life and art and search the web for the price on his art.   I have enclosed below an excellet biography about his life and art history.   This Image has a very reasonable price in comparisson to recent sales for the artist.   THIS IS ALSO RARE BECAUSE HIS DRAWINGS ARE VERY HARD TO FIND FOR PURCHASE.   I bought this image together with several other fantastic drawings from a beautiful and important Collection. The provenance of this piece is strong and secure. This is an authentic Drawing. (Please see information below).   This Drawing is part of several rare important art images from a fantastic collection I bought ánd will be offering on ebay.   Here are the details about this fantastic image:   ERIC SLOANE (American, 1905-1986)   Drawing - Ink & Wash on Paper   Titled "Treenware"   Signed "Eric Sloane" on bottom left (see photo)   Also Inscribed "Ilustration for Seasons of American Past" on bottom right and verso (see photos) Image Size:                 11" High x 13" Wide – 27.9 cm High x 33 cm Wide Frame:                         20 1/2"High x 20 1/2"Wide -  52 cm High x 52 cm Wide   OFFERED FRAMED   PROVENANCE:   The Estate of Daniel J. Terra for the benefit of the acquisition fund of the Terra Foundation for American Art.   CONDITION REPORT:   Please note that I will try my best to give accurate information about condition. This is an old drawing and the paper has minor light staining and soilling. Otherwise the overall condition is very good with no paper damage. The wood frame looks old. I think that this one should be replaced by a nice new frame. The glass has also some surface dirt. (See pictures and feel free to ask me for any additional images).   PLEASE DON'T BID IF YOU ARE NOT SURE ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE BUYING.   PLEASE READ THIS: I am an extremely honest person and have excellent reputation and feedback on ebay (feel free to check it). I will make everything possible to make any ebay transaction a smooth and positive experience. I will also try to describe the item as accurate as possible. Feel free to ask me any questions and for additional photos.   I’ll be offering other important images, paintings, photographs and antiques on ebay.   I only offer unique high quality items bought from very diverse sources, collections and estates.   Bid with confidence.   Good Luck     Biography:   Eric Sloane (born Everard Jean Hinrichs) (27 February 1905 – 5 March 1985) was an American landscape painter and author of illustrated works of cultural history and folklore. He is considered a member of the Hudson River School of painting. Eric Sloane was born in New York City. As a child, he was a neighbor of noted sign painter and type designer Frederick W. Goudy. Sloane studied art and lettering with Goudy. While he attended the Art Students League of New York City, he changed his name. In the summer of 1925, Sloane ran away from home, working his way across the country as a sign painter. Unique hand calligraphy and lettering became a characteristic of his illustrated books. Sloane eventually returned to New York and settled in Connecticut, where he began painting rustic landscapes in the tradition of the Hudson River School. In the 1950s, he began spending part of the year in Taos, New Mexico, where he painted western landscapes and particularly luminous depictions of the desert sky. In his career as a painter, he produced over 15,000 works. His fascination with the sky and weather led to commissions to paint works for the U.S. Air Force and the production of a number of illustrated works on meteorology and weather forecasting. Sloane is even credited with creating the first televised weather reporting network, by arranging for local farmers to call in reports to a New England broadcasting station. Sloane also had a great interest in New England folk culture, Colonial daily life, and Americana. He wrote and illustrated scores of Colonial era books on tools, architecture, farming techniques, folklore, and rural wisdom. Every book included detailed illustrations, hand lettered titles, and his characteristic folksy wit and observations. He developed an impressive collection of historic tools which became the nucleus of the collection in the Sloane-Stanley Tool Museum in Kent, Connecticut. Sloane's best known books are A Reverence for Wood, which examines the history and tools of woodworking, as well as the philosophy of the woodworker; The Cracker Barrel, which is a compendium of folk wit and wisdom; and Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake-1805, based on a diary he discovered at a local library book sale. His most famous painted work is probably the skyscape mural, Earth Flight Environment, which is still on display in the Independence Avenue Lobby in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Sloane died in New York in 1985, while walking down the street to a luncheon in his honor, celebrating the publication of his memoir Eighty: An American Souvenir. BIBLIOGRAPHY: ABC Book of Early Americana: A Sketchbook of Antiquities and American Firsts (1990) American Barns and Covered Bridges American Yesterday A Museum of Early American Tools (1979) An Age of Barns (1975) American Museum of Natural History (1976) A Reverence for Wood (1965) Camouflage Simplified (1942) Clouds, Air and Wind (1941) Diary of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake-1805 (1962) Eighty: An American Souvenir (1985) Eric Sloane's Do: A Little Book of Early American Know-how (1972) Eric Sloane's Don'ts: A Little Book of Early American Gentility by Oliver Bell Bunce The Do's and Don'ts of Yesteryear: A treasury of Early American Folk Wisdom Eric Sloan's Almanac and Weather Forecaster (1955) Eric Sloane's America (1994) Eric Sloan's Weather Book (1952) Folklore of American Weather (1963) For Spacious Skies: A Meteorological Sketchbook of American Weather (1978) Gremlin Americanus: A Scrap Book Collections of Gremlins (1943) I Remember America (1971, 1975) Legacy (1979) Look At the Sky and Tell the Weather (2004) Mr. Daniels and the Grange (with Edward Anthony) (1968) Once Upon a Time: The Way America Was (1982) Our Vanishing Landscape (1982) Return to Taos: A Sketchbook of Roadside Americana (1960) Sketches of America Past (1995) Skies and the Artist Spirits of '76 (1973) The Book of Storms (1956) The Cracker Barrel (1979) The Little Book of Bells The Little Red Schoolhouse The Second Barrel (1969) The Sound of the Bells (1966) How You Can Forecast the Weather (1957) School Days: ABC Book of Early Americana/the Little Red School (1983) Eric Sloane, 1905-1985: Paintings & drawings : March 11 thru 30 (1991) Eric Sloane, NA, at Gilcrease: Exhibition May 1-July 6, 1982 (1982) Eric Sloane: East-West: Lands of Awareness (1984) Eric Sloane's I Remember America calendar (1977) Eric Sloane: An Artist's Legacy, Selected Paintings from Museum Exhibitions Place a Bid!