Background
Sloan, John was born on August 2, 1871 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Dixon and Henrietta (Ireland) Sloan.
Sloan, John was born on August 2, 1871 in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of James Dixon and Henrietta (Ireland) Sloan.
Educated Central High School, Philadelphia. Evening classes, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, under the late Thomas P. Anschutz.
Painter figure and landscape, and etcher of city life subjects. Etched plates illustrating Paul de Kock’s novels. Drawings for Harper’s, Collier’s, Everybody’s, Scribner’s, et cetera
Honorary mention, painting, “The Coffee Lincolnshire,” Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1905.
Carol Beck gold medal for portraiture, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, 1930-1931. Representative by paintings in Metropolitan Museum, Whitney Museum of America Art (New York), Brooklyn Museum of Art, Corcoran Gallery (Washington, District of Columbia), Phillips Memorial Gallery (Washington, District of Columbia), Detroit Museum of Art, Harrison Gallery, Los Angeles, The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, San Diego Art Museum, Barnes Foundation (Merion, Pennsylvania), Museum of Art and Archaeology (Santa Fe, New Mexico), Pennsylvania State College, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Addison Gallery, Phillips (Andover) Academy, Art Museum of Wichita, Kansas, Toledo Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia Museum Art, Washington State University, Dartmouth College, Encyclopaedia Britannica Collection, Thomas J. Watson Collection, Cleveland Museum of Art, and in print collection of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Cincinnati Museum of Art, Detroit Museum of Arts, Public Library (Newark, New Jersey), Carnegie The Art Institute of Chicago, (Pittsburgh).
Medal for etchings, Panama Philippine Islands Exposition, 1915, Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, 1926. Instructor Art Students’ League, 1914-1930, 1932-1938.
President, 1930-1931.
Made etchings for “Of Human Bondage” for Limited Editions Club, 1937. Mural in Bronxville, New York, Post Office, 1939.
South Beach Bathers
Three A.M.
Pink and Blue
My Wife in Blue
Green's Cat
Nude
Sunlit Peak, Santa Fe Canyon
Colored Girl with Gold and Silver
Blond Nude and Flowers
Jeanne Dubinsky
Spanish Girl (Fur Hat, Red Coat)
Hot Wave Puzzle. Illustration for Philadelphia Press
Wonson's Rocks and Ten Pound Island
The New Blue Dress
Renganeschi's Saturday Night
Chinese Restaurant
Professional Nurse
Helen Taylor Sketching
Fifth Avenue, New York
Easter Eve
Independence Square, Philadelphia
Spring, Grammercy Park
Sunday, Women Drying Their Hair
Six O'Clock, Winter
Deep Blue Sea
Young Woman in Black and White (Mary Kerr)
Humoresque
Our Home in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
Threshing Floor, Santa Fe
Sunset, West Twenty-Third Street
Sun and Wind on the Roof
Boy with Piccolo
Wake of the Ferry
McSorley's Cats
A Gloucester Day
Wet Night, Washington Square
McSorley's Bar
Country Road
Daisy
Stein, Profile (Foreign Girl)
The Effect is Spoiled
Clown Making Up
Nude At Piano
Street, Lilacs, Noon Sun
Rocks, Weeds and Sea
The Cot
Blond Nude with Orange, Blue Couch
The City from Greenwich Village
Self-portrait
Rosette
Our Red Cottage, Gloucester
Spring Rain, New York
Fishing Port, Gloucester
Rainbow, New York City
The Picnic Grounds
Passing Schooner
Nude standing
George Sotter
The Lookout Green and Orange Cliffs, Gloucester
Spring Planting, Greenwich Village
Snake Charmer Puzzle
Gray and Brass
The Haymarket
Nude with Red Hand Mirror
Election Night
Scrubwoman, Astor Library
Eagles of Tesuque
Yellow Rock, Gloucester
Dust Storm, Fifth Avenue
Spring. Washington Square
Gladys Carter (Woman in White)
Sally and Paul, Reds and Greens
Poster and cover for February 15, 1896, The Echo
Nude, Terra Cotta
A Window on the Street
Green and Red
Backyards, Greenwich Village
Girl, Back to the Piano
Movies, Five Cents
Juanita
Grassy Dunes, Gloucester
Pigeons
Nude, Red Hair, Standing
East Entrance, City Hall, Philadelphia
Santa Fe Siesta
Cornelia Street
Nude, Four Senses
Remember the Spanish leather miner. Self caricature
A Woman's Work
Yeats at Petitpas
Hairdresser's Window
Gloucester Harbor
Helen in Green Suit
Nude
Unknown title
Gloucester Inlet
Monument in the Plaza, New York
Back Room
Self-Portrait (Pipe and Brown Jacket)
Carol with Red Curls
Chama Running Red
Evening Arroyo
Gray Day, Jersey Coast
Cover of the June, 1914 issue of The Masses
Member board of directors, School of America Research and Museum of North. Mexico, since 1940. Director Society Independent Artists. Member National Institute Arts and Letters, 1929.
Member American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1942.
Home-Studio: Hotel Chelsea, West. 23d Saint, New York 11, New New York
Married Anna M. Wall, August 5, 1901 (died 1943). Married second, Helen Farr, February 5, 1944.