Some great photographs can be found at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Collections Division. The photographs show the finished version of Eric Sloane’s Earth Flight Environment as well as some images of the artist at work. I did not realize that there is another Eric Sloane mural, hidden currently behind a wall, in the Age of Flight section of the museum. From the photograph, it looks like a great mural. Has anyone seen it in person?
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An image from the current exhibit The Artist Who Loved the Sky: Cloudscapes, Weather, and the World of Eric Sloane, which will close October 3rd. This wonderful exhibit chronicles Eric’s work with the sky and meteorology with a specific emphasis on his original art. Some early and rare original works of art are included in this exhibit.
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An image from the current exhibit The Artist Who Loved the Sky: Cloudscapes, Weather, and the World of Eric Sloane, which will close October 3rd. This wonderful exhibit chronicles Eric’s work with the sky and meteorology with a specific emphasis on his original art. Some early and rare original works of art are included in this exhibit.
Artist at Work
Another early photograph at the artist at work. Here Eric Sloane is examining a finished “cloudscape”, a term he claimed to coin for his paintings of just the sky with perhaps a plane flying through the cloud formations. From the photographers perspective, this cloudscape appears quite large, though not uncommon for the period.