A memorial service in celebration of Louis B. Sloan's life and work will be held on Sunday, December 14, 2008 at 2.00 P.M. in the Rotunda, Historic Landmark Building, 118 N. Broad Street.
An exhibition honoring Sloan will open 1:00 - 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, December 14, 2008 in Gallery 10, Historic Landmark Building, 118 N. Broad Street.
Exhibition Dates:
December 14, 2008 - March 8, 2009
Location:
Historic Landmark Building, Gallery 10
Description:
Louis B. Sloan (1932-2008) was a prominent figure in the Philadelphia art community. An alumnus of Fleisher Art School and PAFA, Sloan taught still-life, landscape, portrait and figure painting classes at PAFA from 1962-1997. Sloan worked in the conservation department at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1961-1980.
The recipient of many prestigious awards, including, PAFA's third annual Distinguished Alumni Award and the Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, the Emily Lowe Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and the James Van Der Zee Award from Philadelphia's Brandywine Workshop, Sloan also received tributes in the halls of government from Pennsylvania Governor Edward G. Rendell, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode, and most recently on November 4, 2008, from Mayor Michael A. Nutter.
The exhibition, curated by Philadelphia art collector, Lewis Tanner Moore, will display over thirty works spanning Sloan's long career. Early works include Backyards, 1955, painted during Sloan's student days at PAFA. The painting captures a moment in his west Philadelphia neighborhood and "that glorious light that glows", indicative of Sloan's work, particularly his landscape paintings. While Sloan's cityscapes favor a more somber palette as seen in Early Streetscape and Gathering Storm over Philadelphia, c. 1961, Sloan's landscape paintings embrace brighter colors to emphasize the varying light and atmospheric conditions as seen in Moon Light, 1978 and Lifting Fog in the Poconos, 1980. Sloan's true passion was landscape painting and it is in paintings such as, Frost Valley in the Catskills, 1995, that his great techinical skills, unique artistic vision and masterful rendering of nature are brought together.
A 56 page, full-color, illustrated catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Essayists include, David R. Brigham, Edna S. Tuttleman Museum Director of PAFA, Elizabeth Osborne, PAFA Painting Faculty, Lewis Tanner Moore and James Brantley. The catalogue is available in exchange for a suggested donation of $25 towards the Louis B. Sloan Memorial Scholarship. For more information please call 215-972-0522
In Memoriam: Louis B. Sloan, June 28, 1932 - October 15, 2008
Curator:
Lewis Tanner Moore
Sponsors:
This exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the following:
Anonymous Donor, in honor of Louis B. Sloan
Daniel Berger, in honor of Harriet Berger
Bill Gannotta
Carole & Bernie Gottlieb
Nicholas James Harris
Lewis Tanner Moore
Beatrice S. Pitcairn
Herbert S. Riband
Glenn Rudderow
Harold A. & Ann R. Sorgenti