Two of the nicest gentlemen you would care to meet. On the left is Andrew Rowand, who has done an incredible amount of work as the Site Manager for the museum. Andrew is incredibly hard working, has fantastic ideas, and is very knowledgeable about Eric Sloane, the museum, and many, many historic crafts and trades. He has been a great partner!
On the right is John Pennings, my successor in every meaning of the word. John is a natural leader, and is very skilled and knowledgeable in more things than I can even remember. Thank you, John, for serving as our board president.
We’re surveying the lean-to shed and listening to Andrew’s needs for an enclosed space dedicated to education…it looks as if this will be the next major project that the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum will undertake in support of our mission to assist the museum. We will keep you posted!

Author and artist Eric Sloane (1905-1985) photographed outside of the newly built Noah Blake cabin, probably late summer of 1974. It appears that Eric has in his right hand several riven wooden shingles.
After a period of about a decade of being shuttered to public visitation, the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum undertook a 4 year project of completely rebuilding the cabin, using as a template the cabin as drawn by Eric in his 1962 “Dairy of an Early American Boy: Noah Blake 1805”. You can read more about the cabin, and the book that inspired it here: www.friendsoftheericsloanemuseum.org/cabin

Treenware! Culinary utensils made from wood!
Original pen and ink illustration by Eric Sloane, N.A. we sold some years past. Learn more about this most fascinating of American artists at www.friendsoftheericsloanemuseum.org

Do you know what a pit saw is (and does?)? If not, it might be time for you to visit the Eric Sloane Museum!

A big thank you to Scott Sheldon and John Pennings of the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum and museum head Andrew Rowandfor all their incredible work on theNoah Blake cabinyesterday! My special thanks to Andrew for going the extra mile in helping me to install the brand new hands-on simple machines exhibit in the cabin. Visitors young and old can now experiment with simple machines and understand fully how they can provide a mechanical advantage.

Eric Sloane painted this stunning mural for the President of Morton Salt in 1958. Rumor has it that, when the building was demolished, an undisclosed collector paid an equally undisclosed sum to have a team of “specialists” cut the mural intact from the wall. I’ve never been able to track the truth of the rumor down, nor am I aware of anyone who has seen the mural since this photo was taken.

Here is a fantastic postcard that features an illustration by Eric Sloane, N.A. sent to me by my good friend and fellow Sloane enthusiast Randy Castellini. You can see that the illustration mimics the type of illustrations that Eric was creating for air fields like Roosevelt Field and Newark Airport. The postmark on the verso of 1940 confirms what we have suspected is the era of these maps. Recall that it was at the Roosevelt Field Inn where Eric Sloane hung one of his first cloudscapes, to which a friend asked him, ‘Who is going to buy a large painting of just the clouds?’ – Sloane had the last laugh, as it was Amelia Earhart who purchased the painting.”
Learn more about how the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum supports and promotes the legacy of Eric Sloane through a robust partnership with the Eric Sloane Museum.

Just in to the gallery – this original pen and ink by Eric Sloane, N.A. A charming view of a flock of geese over a marshland. Over the course of his artistic career, Eric Sloane included ducks or geese in a wide variety of his works, probably a result of time spent on Long Island, N.Y. as a younger man. Approximately 12″ tall x 10″ wide. Signed Eric Sloane, N.A. at center right. On heavy artist board. Unframed as received in the gallery.

Eric Sloane at home, 1958, as part of a series of publicity photographs concerning the publication of his book Seasons of America Past.
Photo courtesy of Wil Mauch. Learn more about how the Friends of the Eric Sloane Museum supports and promotes the legacy of Eric Sloane through a robust partnership with the Eric Sloane Museum by visiting us at www.friendsoftheericsloanemuseum.org.

Just in to the gallery – this iconic, original pen and ink view of a Pennsylvania bank barn with a stone spring house in the foreground by Eric Sloane, N.A. Well-sized at approximately 12″ tall x 10″ wide.
Signed Eric Sloane, N.A. at center. On heavy artist board. Unframed as received in the gallery – we have decided to let the new owner make their own decisions regarding framing options. Please contact the gallery for pricing.