Sloan, Eric (1905–1985)

US illustrator, painter, and author. He became an expert on everything from agriculture to weather while writing and illustrating books on early American artifacts, such as The ABC Book of Early Americana (1963), and I Remember America (1971).

He was born in New York City, and studied at the Art Students League, New York, in the 1930s under John Sloan, whose last name he appropriated. He was based in Cornwall, Connecticut and, later, in Santa Fe, New Mexico.