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In Memoriam: Louis B. Sloan
(1932-2008)
Dear PAFA Community,
I am saddened to announce that we have received news of the death of the former Academy faculty member Lou Sloan. A memorial exhibition and reception is being organized. Lou Sloan is survived by his brothers, sisters and family: Bruce, Craig, Barbara, Michelle and PA.
A graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Lou Sloan taught still life, landscape, portrait and figure painting classes at the Academy from 1962 until his retirement in 1997. Originally encouraged by Academy instructor Julius Bloch to study at the Academy, Lou went on to receive the Philadelphia City Council Scholarship in 1952 and, four years later, the Pennsylvania Academy’s Cresson Travel Scholarship. He also worked as a conservator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1963 to 1981.
Lou Sloan was honored on May 6, 2005 with the Academy’s third annual Distinguished Alumni Award. During his career, Lou received many other 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 Van Der Zee Award from Philadelphia’s Brandywine Workshop. Louis Sloan is represented in the permanent collections of the Pennsylvania Academy, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Woodmere Art Museum and numerous private collections.
In 1997 Felicity R. and Peter A. Benoliel established the LOUIS B. SLOAN LANDSCAPE OR STILL LIFE PRIZE to honor Lou. This endowed prize is awarded to a student entering the third year who works primarily as a landscape or still life painter, preferably in the plein-air tradition that was the core of Mr. Sloan's teaching.
Lou’s faculty colleague Dan Miller has this to say about Lou:
“Lou served for about two years as Dean of Students under Eph Weinberg. There have been few faculty members more beloved by students than Lou. His gentleness and concern were legendary, and yet he could quite ably verbalize anger when he thought things were not going well within the School. His ideals were of the highest.
Lou’s student trips to the Poconos became part of the Academy legend. Few faculty in my memory have given more of themselves. He wanted all of us to keep our efforts properly directed toward paint. His indignation arose when he felt the cross currents of misdirection.
Lou’s influence on students was profound without being forced. His attitudes were transparent, and yet he was open to the vision of others. It was an enervating and enlightening experience to watch Lou paint. Few artists ever applied pigment to surface more sensitively or naturally. "
Jeffrey Carr
Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dean of the School of Fine Arts
Lou Sloan '57
Photo: Stuart Watson
