LOUIS B. SLOAN (1932 - 2008) Untitled (Vase of Flowers on a Window Sill).
Oil on linen canvas, circa 1970s. 559x762 mm; 22x30 inches. Signed in oil, lower right.
Provenance: the estate of Constance E. Clayton, Philadelphia.
This beautiful floral still life is an example of the mid-career painting of this significant Philadelphia native artist. Encouraged by instructor artist Julius Bloch to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Sloan won the Philadelphia City Council Scholarship in 1952 and enrolled the following year. Sloan soon became a leading figure in the Philadelphia art scene with a career spanning over 50 years. He worked as a faculty member at the Academy, its first African American full professor, and a conservator at both the Academy and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Over his career, Sloan received many prestigious awards, including the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, the Academy's Jennie Sesan Gold Medal, The Emily Lowe Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the James VanDerZee Award from Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop. Today, his paintings are found in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Woodmere Art Museum and numerous private collections.
