Artists on Art Chronologies Essays Gallery Editor's Pages Home : Artists on Art : Sloan John Sloan (1871 - 1951) Precis John Sloan was born in Lock-Haven, PA. His father was an unsuccessful businessman and his mother a schoolteacher from a well-off Philadelphia merchant family. At a young age, Sloan became adept at drawing and etching and at twenty went to work as a newspaper illustrator for the ...

JOHN SLOAN 1871-1951 Recruiting in Union Square, 1909 Oil on canvas, 26 X 32 (66.04 x 81.28 cm.) Signed, lower left Museum purchase, 954-0-140 John Sloan was born in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and grew up in Philadelphia. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1892, first with Thomas Anshutz, and later with Robert Henri. Sloan's professional career as an artist began as an ...