I knew Eric very well from 1978 to about 1990-91. I last saw Eric Ladd in the early 1990s. He had long dropped out of cover art, by the mid 80s, and went into more private and kind of abstract fine art work whilst he worked days for the State of Rhode Island on construction sites for the DivDivision of Highways (I would say this was about 1993 or 93). I knew he was having some serious personal issues back then, and subsequently lost touch.