Louis B. Sloan

**Louis B. Sloan** (1932–2008) o daa nyɛla African-American tingbani tuma baŋda, ni karimba. Ŋuna n daa nyɛ gbansabinli tuuli ŋun niŋ profesa Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), ni "conservator" zaŋ ti Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

## Piligu biɛhigu mini shikuru
Louis Baynard Sloan nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so June 28, 1932, West Philadelphia ka ban dɔɣi o nyɛ Matthew mini Anna Mae Sloan.

## O ni daa nyɛ shikuru bila Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Sloan daa nyɛ sɔŋsim ni o chaŋ PAFA. O daa nyɛla shikuru bili ŋun kpaŋmaŋa yi polo ni, ka daa di pini bɔbigu. O daa chaŋ PAFA bini din gbaai yuuni 1953 zaŋ chaŋ yuuni 1957, ka daa naai ni shɛhira gbaŋ.

O ni daa di pini shɛŋa PAFA:

1954 – Student-show prize-winner, annual Fellowship (alumni) exhibition

1955 - Board of Directors' Prize

1955 - Henry J. Thouron Prize

1955 - Honorable mention, Landscape Prize

1955 - Catherine Grant Memorial Prize for best landscape. This was the first year of the award.

1956 - J. Henry Schiedt Traveling Scholarship, two months abroad. He traveled in Europe with fellow Black student Raymond Saunders, who that year won a William Emlen Cresson Memorial Traveling Scholarship (two years) &nbsp;

1957 - Charles Toppan award 

1957 – Student-show prize-winner, annual Fellowship (alumni) exhibition

In 1955, Sloan's painting "Backyards," completed that year, was gifted to PAFA by a patron. In 1956, he painted a self-portrait of him standing in front of rowhouses bathed in light, now in the PAFA collection.

O yuma ayi ni PAFA yuuni 1954, Sloan tuma daa kpe Red Door Gallery, ka daa lahi kpe yuuni1957 ka di nyɛla PAFA n daa zaŋ li tahi,Tyler School of Art din be Temple University ni Philadelphia Museum and School of industrial Art (din pa nyɛ University of the Arts).

## The years beyond PAFA
Yuma din daa gbaai yuuni 1960s daa nyɛla daliri yuma n-ti Sloan, ŋun daa ti niŋ PAFA's tuuli gbansabinli ŋun tum ni tum yuuni 1962. O daa lahi di pini shɛŋa yaha:

1960 - Wilkie Buick Regional Exhibition, second prize for his painting "Hillside".

1960, 1961 - Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant

1962 - Jennie Sesnan Gold Medal, for "Gathering Storm over Philadelphia".

1962 - Emily Lowe Grant

1962 - Tobeleah Wechsler 2nd Prize, for "Pennsylvania Landscape", Cheltenham Center for the Arts.

Yuuni 1963, Sloan daa di John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship ni o go n chaŋ United States. Ka o daa piigi chaŋ South, ka daa chaŋ sahashɛli yuuni maa ni daa saɣi naabu.

## Bahigu yuma
Yuuni 1991, o daa di James Van Der Zee Award, Brandywine Workshop ban sɔŋdi bi'pola ban niŋdi nuuni tuunbaŋsim, ni PAFA Distinguished Faculty Award.&nbsp; Yuuni 1994, Sloan anfooni daa pahi gbansabila ninvuɣ'pia ban anfooninima zaŋ pa pɔhim zuɣu African American Museum in Philadelphia. Bɛ daa zaŋ o yuli ti pini shɛŋa PAFA yuuni 1997.

Sloan daa kpimi ni suhu dori Anashaara goli October 15, 2008.

Sloan's tumanima daa pahi yuuni 2015 exhibition *[[We Speak: Black Artists in Philadelphia, 1920s-1970s]]* ni Woodmere Art Museum.

## Collections
* Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
* La Salle University Art Museum
* Sheldon Museum of Art
* Woodmere Art Museum
*Philadelphia Museum of Art
*African American Museum in Philadelphia 
*Tarboro (NC) Arts Commission 
*Rutgers University-Camden 
*Petrucci Family Foundation Collection of African American Art

## Exhibitions
Red Door Gallery, 1954, 1957

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1962, 1963, 1999, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2021 

Cheltenham Center for the Arts, 1962

Bryn Mawr College, 1963 N

Towne Gallery, 1963 1963 

Heritage House Galleries, 1963

Peale House Galleries, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1964, 1967

Samuel S. Fleischer Art Memorial, 1966

Lee Cultural Center, 1967

Cultural Arts Center, Ocean City (NJ), 1968

Afro-American Artists 1800-1969, Philadelphia Civic Center Museum, 1969

Philadelphia Ethical Society, 1969

Afro-American Art Festival, La Salle College, 1969

Vendo Nubes Gallery, 1972

Millville Public Library, 1972

American Painters in Paris, 1975

Earth Art II, Junior League of Philadelphia, 1975

Reese Palley Fine Arts Gallery, Atlantic City, 1975

Woodmere Art Museum, 1978, 1980, 2014, 2015

Stedman Gallery, 1978

Deshong Museum, Widener University, 1981

Olympia Galleries LTD, Atlanta, 1982

Gloucester County College, 1987

Pittman Memorial Gallery, Tarboro (NC), 1987

Windy Bush Gallery, 1996

Moore College of Art & Design, 1997

Hahn Gallery, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2004

African American Museum in Philadelphia, 2002

Noyes Museum of Art, 2019

## Kundivihira