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COSTUME / FASHION. Sloan, Gino. Four fabric designs. Mixed media on board. Variations on a modern graphic and floral design in black, white, purple, green, and orange. 432x278 mm; 17x14 inches, image, mounted to thick stock with Sloan's name and address on verso. Ny, circa 1980
Sloan was the art director for the J.P. Stevens, the great textile company (now merged into WestPoint Home, Inc.), and worked with many fashion and interior designers. He was friends with Andy Warhol and Sloan's large yellow tabby cat Sam, was one of the feline models for Warhol's famous work 25 Cats Name Sam and One Blue Pussy. The notorious Greenwich Village townhouse explosion on March 6, 1970 set off by radical leftist group, the Weather Underground, when their bomb prematurely detonated, affected the townhouse where both Sloan and actor Dustin Hoffman lived, destroying a large portion of the designer's personal collection.
