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John Stephan

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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Oil painting, Mural


Movement
  
Abstract Expressionism

Name
  
John Stephan

John Stephan

Born
  
December 29, 1906 (
1906-12-29
)
Chicago

Died
  
July 1, 1995(1995-07-01) (aged 88)

Alma mater
  
Art Institute of Chicago

Spouse(s)
  
Ruth Walgreen Stephan Dart

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John Walter Stephan (1906–1995) was an American painter in the Hard-edge style. His magazine The Tigers Eye was widely read and is considered a lastingly influential magazine of art and literature. He was a contemporary and friends with such notable artists as Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and William Baziotes

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Early life

John Stephan was born in Maywood, Illinois to a father who was a dentist and a mother who was a nurse, and his family moved to Chicago in 1917 he attended the University of Illinois and later the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Career

After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he worked as an Art Instructor at Jane Addams Hull House, in Chicago and later was a Draftsman, at Western Electric in Chicago. His first solo exhibition was in 1931 with many other solo and group exhibitions of note.

Personal life

He was married to Ruth Walgreen, than Ruth Stephan, who was the daughter of walgreens founder Charles Rudolph Walgreen.

Notable exhibitions

  • 9th Street Art Exhibition
  • Notable collections

  • Yale University Art Gallery
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Rose Art Museum
  • References

    John Stephan Wikipedia