Died 22 November 2001, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Education New York University (1972) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada | ||
Patricia Hermine Sloane, Phd (November 21, 1934 - November 21, 2001) was an American Painter, Author, and Professor of Fine Arts at NYC Technical College of the City University of New York. She was best known for her Abstract Expressionism painting style, which can be interpreted as early street or urban art, with a close connection to the New York school movement. She was a member of the 10th Street Galleries (specifically the Camino Gallery) in New York City during the 1950s and 1960s. Dr. Sloane's books included topics on fine arts, art history, principles of color, and the works of T.S. Elliot. She was married to Dr. Kenneth Campbell, a noted sculptor & artist.
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Education
1954 - Hans Hoffman School of Fine Arts
1955 - BFA - Rhode Island School of Design
1958 - National Academy of Design
1968 - MA - City University of New York - CUNY - Hunter College
1972 - PhD - New York University - NYU
Her PhD dissertation was “The Description of Color: A Critique of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Color Theory”.
Career
She was a frequent contributor to the Village Voice with critical writings as well as drawings. In 1956 she was an instructor at Ohio University. She also taught at the Jewish Community Center in Providence, RI, the Scarsdale Community Workshop, 1965, URI, Community College of New York, Trenton Jr. College, and she spent the latter part of her teaching career as a full professor at the City University of New York. In addition, she was a gallery lecturer at the Whitney Museum, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1974.
Collections
Her Paintings have been displayed at:
• MoMA – Museum of Modern Art
• University of Notre Dame
• Burgenland Landesregierung – Austria
• Oblanstini Municipay Museum - Czechoslovakia
Recognition
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation – Received One Year Fellowship for “Studies in Color Theory” in 1974 for 1974-75 Academic Year (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation).
Exhibitions
The Riverdale YMHA
Gallery 195, NYC, 1958
Camino Gallery, 1961
Providence Art Club, Brata Gallery, (solo) 1963
Emmanuel Midtown YMHA, 1964
Chelsea Exhibit, St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, 1964
Silvermine Art Guild, 1967
Grand Central Moderns, (solo) 1968
Fordham University, URI, 1968
University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1971
Stamford Museum, 1972
Landmark Gallery, 1973
Bronx Museum of the Arts, 1975
Phoenix Gallery Tenth Street Days exhibition, 1978
Grace Gallery of New York Technical College (solo), 1983
Olin Fine Arts Center (solo) 1984
Author's Books
Jan 1, 1968 - Color: Basic Principles
Nov 1, 1989 - Visual Nature of Color
Aug 2, 2000 - T. S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems:
Uses of Literary Allusion in "Burbank with a Baedeker
Bleistein with a Cigar" and "Dirge"
Patricia Sloane dedicated much of her research studies to color theory. She was also an observant critic of art and social history. Her resourceful study T.S. Eliot's Bleistein Poems correlates the material with Dante's universe in principle because Eliot venerated the Comedia from his youth. Thus she sought evidence which substantiate his claim that "Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar" was "very serious," and again, "intensely serious." She believed that artistic vulgarity or offensiveness might function ironically, or as a blind, and considered that to imagine anti-Semitic intent in poems by Eliot amounted to misconstruction, by his detractors or others, of his poetic strategy. From her perspective, which was Jewish, she understood Dante's view of the role of the Jews in history, and attributed that view to Eliot also. Patricia Sloane wrote wittily and sometimes sardonically, but always with kindness to Eliot and good humor toward her readers.