Collect: American Art Featuring Works from the Estate of Sydney F. Martin

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Known for his landscapes, Louis B. Sloan was an African American artist, teacher, and conservator. He has the distinction of being the first Black full professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and a conservator for the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Sloan began his art career at PAFA after winning a scholarship to attend, he would become one of their star students and win several awards during his time there. He has been described as a “quiet giant of American Art”. Contemporary American artist and one of Sloan’s former students, Barkley Hendricks, has said of Sloan’s work that he is an un-appreciated and under-valued artist because of the genre he chose as a Black artist – landscapes.