This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Junius
Sloan died in Oak Glen, California, just outside of Redlands in 1900.
He was on a ladder climbing up a tree when he fell to his death. Oak
Glen is in the foothills above Yucaipa, CA and now is where apples are
grown. Junius was married to Sara L. Spencer, whose father devised the
Spencerian Script.
Submitted by Barbara "Bobby" Dobbins Title
Loma Linda, California
January 2005 |
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|  Born in Kingsville, OH on March 10, 1827. Sloan was an itinerant artist who was constantly on the move. From 1848 he painted landscapes and portraits in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Illinois. He died in Redlands, CA on Aug. 15, 1900. | | Nearly 20,000 biographies can be found in Artists in California 1786-1940 by Edan Hughes and is available for sale ($150). For a full book description and order information please click here. |
Biography from Brauer Museum Of Art:
| Born in Kingsville, Ohio, Junius Sloan was entirely self taught as an
artist. In 1848, he began a career as an itinerant portrait
painter and traveled in Ohio, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. In
1857, he moved to New York City and shared a studio with Julian Edward
Bryant (1836-1865), a nephew of William Cullen Bryant. Although
Sloan considered himself primarily a portrait painter, he was well
aware of the Hudson River School painters and was a particular friend
of Cincinnati landscape painter, Robert S. Duncanson.
In 1858,
he moved to Erie, Pennsylvania and painted portraits for a few years
but after 1864, concentrated on landscape painting. He made many
sketching trips into the Catskill Mountains, the Hudson River Valley,
and Vermont.
In 1864, he moved to Chicago, then left for a couple of years and then returned in 1873 for the remainder of his life.
More
than 250 of his paintings are in the Brauer Museum, Valparaiso
University in Valparaiso, Indiana, and included are some midwestern
landscapes that he painted on visits to his parents' home at
Wethersfield, Illinois in 1866.
Source:
Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
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