Eighty: An American Souvenir

In this stunning volume, America's greatest artist-author of authentic Americana, Eric Sloane, tells the intensely personal story of his life from itinerant sign painter to venerated chronicler of nostalgic America.

Now at eighty, Sloane has written and illustrated a colorful panorama of the America he knew as a boy, a scene he has never forgotten and has immortalized in superb paintings and descriptive detail. This magnificently crafted volume features forty-one of Sloane's grand paintings as well as the evocative drawings that demonstrate his unique talents and his precise understanding of the soul of America's historic past. His wise and witty words blend with his art into an unforgettable sage of the wondrous world of vintage America.