Frank Van Sloun

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Frank Van Sloun
Born1879
Died1938
Education Art Students League of New York
Chase School of Art
OccupationPainter

Frank Van Sloun (1879-1938) was an American painter, muralist and etcher. He painted murals in California. His paintings and etchings are in museums in California, Missouri and Washington, D.C..

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Life

Van Sloun was born in 1879 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. [1] [2] He was influenced by Rembrandt from a young age, and he studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Chase School of Art, later known as the Parsons School of Design. [2]

Van Sloun became an artist in New York City, and he moved to San Francisco in 1911. [2] He taught at the California School of Fine Arts, and he joined the California Society of Etchers. [2] He had a studio at 166 Geary Street in San Francisco. [1] He painted murals in the Oakland City Hall, the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, and the California State Library in Sacramento. With Maynard Dixon, he did the murals of the dining-room in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, in San Francisco. [1]

For art historian John Maxwell Desgrey, "Van Sloun's greatness as an American artist did not only lie in his skills, training, and God-given talent as an artist, but more importantly in his American roots. He was completely a product of America, not only in his art training but in his subject matter and technique." [2]

Van Sloun died on August 1938 in San Francisco, at age 59. [1] He was buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery. [1] His artwork is in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. [3] [4] It is also in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, [5] the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, [6] Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in Moraga, [7] and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. [8]

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