SLOANE ERIC Ye First Rate Mappe of Coney Island

Sale 1940 - Lot 422

Price Realized: $ 1,840

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

CONEY ISLAND MEMORABILIA SLOANE, ERIC. Ye First Rate Mappe of Coney Island. Pen-and-ink sketch finished with color, showing a humorous map of Coney Island, with a small inset of the larger metropolitan area showing the location of Coney Island, 400x485 mm; somewhat toned overall; slightly adhering at edges to the glass when framed. Coney Island, 1933

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Curious piece by the artist who epitomized down-home Americana during the first half of the century. During the early 1930s Sloane did contract work for Steeplechase Park in Coney Island, including painting the 72-horse carousel owned by the Tilyou family. Sloane produced three variations of this map, two for members of the Tilyou family, and this one for Jimmie and Louise Onorato. This is the Onorato copy with their names boldly inscribed and incorporated into the work near the center of the image. Onorato was the general manager of Steeplechase Park at the time. The map is described by Onorato in volume 2 of his published diary, Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 1928-1964.<