LOUIS B. SLOAN (1932 - 2008) Clouds in the Catskills.
Oil on masonite board, circa 1990s. 324x527 mm; 12¾x20¾ inches. Signed in oil, lower left.
Provenance: the estate of Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia.
Louis Sloan was an avid plein air landscape painter who painted pastoral scenes in the rural areas outside Philadelphia. He took his students at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts on annual painting trips to the Catskills, the Delaware Water Gap and the Poconos Mountains in Pennsylvania, and the Adirondack Mountains in New York. Sloan's 1972 Self-Portrait in Landscape, which embodies his love of nature, depicting himself surrounded by a sunny field of flowers, is in the permanent collection of Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
