John French Sloan

John French Sloan (August 2, 1871 - September 8, 1951) was a U.S. artist. He was born in Lock Haven, PA., to a businessman father and a schoolteacher mother. At the age of 20, he became an illustrator with The Philadelphia Inquirer. He studied art in the evening at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he met his mentor, Robert Henri, author of "The Art Spirit."

Further reading

• John Loughery, John Sloan: Painter and Rebel (1995) ISBN 0805028781
• John Sloan's New York Scene;: From the Diaries, Notes, and Correspondence, 1906-1913 Harper & Row, (1965)
• Janice M. Coco, John Sloan's Women: A Psychoanalysis of Vision (2004) ISBN 0874138663