The Soul of the American Landscape: The Life and Legacy of Eric Sloane To wander through the canvases of Eric Sloane is to embark on a nostalgic journey through the heart of a vanishing America. Born Everard Jean Hinrichs in New and York City in 1905, the man who would become the preeminent chronicler of rural life possessed an uncanny ability to breathe vitality into the weathered wood of barns, the quiet dignity of farm implements,…