$575 Untitled (still life) signed watercolor and ink 11" x 17"
$300 Untitled (Summer Lake Scene) signed watercolor 10" x 14"
$200 But Why? (Dock Scene) signed c. 1985 gouache 6.75" x 8"
$300 Smokestacks (Black) signed 1990 acrylic on paper 13.5" x 16"
$225 Skyway Image signed acrylic on paper 14.5" x 11"
SOLD Untitled (Downtown Minneapolis Skyway) signed watercolor 9" x 13"
SOLD Smokestacks (Blue) signed 1990 acrylic on paper 19" x 14"
SOLD Smokestacks (Green) signed 1990 acrylic on paper 15" x 21"
SOLD Two by the Sea signed 1987 gouache 5" x 8.5"
SOLD Minneapolis Scene signed acrylic on paper 18" x 14.5"
Eric Austen Erickson (1920 - 2017)
Eric Erickson began his studies prior to World War II at the WPA Art Center and at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, where he continued his studies after four years of military service. He then studied painting at the Arts Students League in New York under Victor Thall and Cameron Booth, as well as painting and sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum School with Max Beckman and Milton Hebald.
Erickson taught at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Macalester College, The Studio School, the Art Center of Minnesota, the Minnesota Museum School, the Walker Art Center and the Grand Marais Art Colony.
Erickson took his imagery from the downtown urban landscape as well as his south Minneapolis neighborhood. In each of his works there is the recognition that the painting refers to a particular place—but the images are open enough to describe a feeling for it, rather than to prescribe the look of it.
Erickson, at the age 96, passed away peacefully on Jan 8, 2017.