As we are in the month of January, this painting seems especially fitting. Titled “January Sunset”, at least until Eric Sloane saw the title. He attempted to correct the gallery, pointing out that the title should read “January Sunrise”. The gallery owner was unmoved, and indicated to Eric that it really shouldn’t make much of a difference. “…I’d know the difference”, a perturbed Sloane wrote the gallery manager, “Sunset clouds are usually cumulus or lumpy, a product of rising thermals from heated ground while sunrise clouds are flat stratus (as in my painting), the result of cold night air being pushed downward by the inversion of upper air heated by the rising sun”. Indeed, January is the month for cold night air.