Oral history interview with Louis Sloan
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 2 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 4 digital wav files. Duration is 2 hr., 53 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Sloan, Louis B. (Louis Baynard), 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
label: Names
content: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts -- Faculty
topic: label: Occupation
content: Painters -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Occupation
content: Educators -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
label: Topic
content: Art -- Conservation and restoration
label: Topic
content: African American artists
label: Topic
content: African American painters
label: Topic
content: Landscape painting
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics, and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Sloan, Louis B. (Louis Baynard), 1932-
label: Interviewer
content: Veloric, Cynthia
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Louis Sloan (1932- ) is a painter from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 110 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1991 July 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.sloan91
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 4779 available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Louis Sloan conducted 1991 July 18, by Cynthia Veloric, for the Archives of American Art Philadelphia Project.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Sloan discusses his background; early art training at the Fleisher Art Memorial; attending the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; his instructors including Hobson Pittman and Francis Speight; fellow students including Roy Saunders and Elizabeth Osborne; difficulties he encountered as an African American artist; traveling to Europe on a Cresson fellowship and traveling the United States on a Guggenheim fellowship; teaching at the PAFA and changes in the school; working as an assistant to conservator Ted Siegel at the PAFA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; the development of his art; subject matter; being a landscape painter; and exhibitions and sales of his work.