T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. explained

Thomas O’Conor Sloane, Jr. (1879–1963) was an American photographer.

Early life and career

Sloane was born in 1879 in Brooklyn, New York but spent much of his adult life in South Orange, New Jersey. Sloane was already photographing by the summer of 1894, when he photographically documented a week-long cruise with his father on a sloop yacht on Long Island Sound. Pictures of this trip survive in an album he compiled that is now at the Mystic Seaport Museum, Mystic, Connecticut.[1]

Sloane was most active as a naturalistic photographer at the turn of the twentieth century, garnering acclaim for his gum bichromate work.[2] [3] [4] [5]

In Sloane's early twenties, he focused primarily on portraiture,[6] becoming a professional sometime thereafter[7] and remaining active until the 1940s, when a diving accident severely impaired his eyesight.[8] [9]

Sloane experimented with gum bichromate, platinum, pigment, gaslight and gelatin silver prints and various lenses.[10] [11] [12]

Sloane graduated from Columbia University in New York City with a degree in electrical engineering like his father, Dr. T. O'Conor Sloane, a noted scientist, prodigious author of scientific books and articles, and the editor of Scientific American and Amazing Stories. Sloane briefly taught electrical engineering and was a research assistant at Columbia, also working independently as an electrical engineer, before becoming a professional photographer.[13] [14] [15] [16]

Photo-Secession movement

Sloane began exhibiting with Alfred Stieglitz's (Portrait of Thomas O'Conor Sloane Jr by Stieglitz, c. early 1900s) cadre of artistic amateur photographers at The Camera Club of New York[17] and in 1902 was an original member of the influential Photo-Secession movement,[18] [19] [20] [21] [22] with his work appearing in that year's National Arts Club exhibition.

Sloane maintained a long friendship with fellow Photo-Secessionist and West Redding, Connecticut resident, photographer Edward Steichen.[23] [24]

Exhibitions and publications

In addition to exhibitions in New York City, Sloane's photographs were exhibited in Chicago and Philadelphia in 1900, London in 1901 and Turin in 1902.[25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32]

Sloane's photographs appeared in Photo Beacon (June 1900), Camera Notes (October 1900), Photographic Times (November 1900 and January 1904), The American Annual of Photography (1901) and Camera Work, No. 3 (July 1903).[33] [34]

An article he wrote, "Photography as a Craft," appeared in the January 1920 edition of The Photo-Miniature.[35]

By 1931 Sloane had relocated to Westport, Connecticut where in 1935 he was commissioned by the Westport Preservation Alliance (WPA) Federal Arts Project to photograph the historic houses of Westport and environs.[36] [37] [38] [39] His photos were black and white using glass plate negatives. A gum print that he created during this time was shown at the Connecticut Tercentenary exhibition in New Haven.[40]

Museums and collections

Sloane's photographic work can be found in art auctions,[41] [42] [43] [44] public and private collections,[45] [46] exhibitions,[47] university archives[48] and museums[49] [50] [51] across the nation, including four pieces in the Hallmark Photographic Collection, now held by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri;[52] nine pieces in the collection of the Addison Gallery of American Art, in Andover, Massachusetts;[53] [Untitled: man harvesting<nowiki>]] (c. 1900) in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota; New York City Construction Site (c. 1900) in the collection of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin;[54] Tree Study (c. 1905) in the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Landscape with Trees (c. 1905) in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum in St. Louis, Missouri;[55] Cloud Study (c. 1910) in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, New York;[56] and Thomas Alva Edison (c. 1914) in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery of The Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.[57]

Family

Sloane married Gertrude Gabrielle Larned (October 4, 1878 - January 17, 1954) of Washington, D.C., an author best known for the children's book Fun with Folk Tales: Six Plays in Verse with Music and Songs (E. P. Dutton, 1942).[58] Together they had four children, including T. O'Conor Sloane III, a senior editor at Doubleday. She passed away on January 17, 1954 in Norwalk, Connecticut.[59]

Sloane's brother, John Eyre Sloane, a Columbia graduate and an airplane factory owner, married Thomas Edison's daughter Madeleine.

Sloane's great-grandson is Justin T. O'Conor Sloane, a publisher and the editor of Worlds of IF magazine[60] [61] and Galaxy Science Fiction magazine.[62] [63] [64] [65]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: T. O'Conor Sloane, Jr. . 29 June 2018.
  2. Book: Davis . Keith . An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital [The Hallmark Photographic Collection] ]. 1995 . Hallmark Cards, Inc./Harry N. Abrams, Inc. . Kansas City, MO . 0-87529-701-3 . 44, 69, 407, 422 . paperback [Abrams cloth] . 8 December 2020.
  3. Web site: The American Annual of Photography, Volume 15 . 1900. 29 June 2018.
  4. Web site: Color Photography . 143 . 29 June 2018. Mees . Charles Edward Kenneth . 1921 .
  5. Web site: The Photo-Miniature, Volume 15, Issues 169 - 180 . 1 July 2018. Tennant. John A.. Lubschez. Ben Jehudah. 1918.
  6. Web site: The American Amateur Photographer, Volume 12 . 1900. 29 June 2018.
  7. Web site: Art News, Volume 17 . 1918. 29 June 2018.
  8. Saretzky . Gary . Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers . New Jersey History . 2004 . Fall/Winter . 31–32 . 16 October 2020.
  9. Book: Homer . William . Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902 . 2002 . Viking Studio . New York . 978-0670030385 . 50701126 . Hardcover . 16 October 2020.
  10. Mees . Charles . The Progress of Photography, 1916 - 1919 . The New Photo-Miniature . 1919 . 15 . 396–400 . 9 October 2020.
  11. Saretzky . Gary . Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers . New Jersey History . 2004 . Fall/Winter . 12 . 16 October 2020.
  12. Book: Homer . William . Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902 . 2002 . Viking Studio . New York . 978-0670030385 . 50701126 . Hardcover . 16 October 2020.
  13. Web site: Columbia University. Office of the President. Annual report (Volume 1903) online . 29 June 2018.
  14. Appendix 1: Statistics Regarding the Teaching and Administrative Staff for the Academic Year 1903-1904 . Columbia University in the City of New York: Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer to the Trustees: With Accompanying Documents: For the Year Ending June 30, 1904 . 1904 . 47 . 17 December 2020 . Columbia University.
  15. American Institute of Electrical Engineers: Catalogue of Members . Proceedings of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers . 1907. 26. 12. 9–189. IEEE . 10.1109/PAIEE.1907.6741914. free.
  16. Book: Fels . Thomas . O Say Can You See: American Photographs, 1839-1939: One Hundred Years of American Photographs from the George R. Rinhart Collection . 1989 . The Berkshire Museum/The MIT Press . Cambridge, MA/London . 132 . 9780262061209 . 4 December 2020.
  17. Book: Davis . Keith . An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital [The Hallmark Photographic Collection] ]. 1995 . Hallmark Cards, Inc./Harry N. Abrams, Inc. . Kansas City, MO . 0-87529-701-3 . 44, 69, 407, 422 . paperback [Abrams cloth] . 8 December 2020.
  18. Book: Davis . Keith . An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital [The Hallmark Photographic Collection] ]. 1995 . Hallmark Cards, Inc./Harry N. Abrams, Inc. . Kansas City, MO . 0-87529-701-3 . 44, 69, 407, 422 . paperback [Abrams cloth] . 8 December 2020.
  19. Saretzky . Gary . Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers . New Jersey History . 2004 . Fall/Winter . 31–32 . 16 October 2020.
  20. Book: Homer . William . Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902 . 2002 . Viking Studio . New York . 978-0670030385 . 50701126 . Hardcover . 16 October 2020.
  21. Web site: Westport Public Schools Digital Collections . 29 June 2018.
  22. Book: Stieglitz . Alfred . Camera Work, No. 3. July 1903 . New York City . 28 September 2020.
  23. Saretzky . Gary . Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers . New Jersey History . 2004 . Fall/Winter . 31–32 . 16 October 2020.
  24. Book: Homer . William . Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession, 1902 . 2002 . Viking Studio . New York . 978-0670030385 . 50701126 . Hardcover . 16 October 2020.
  25. Book: Davis . Keith . An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital [The Hallmark Photographic Collection] ]. 1995 . Hallmark Cards, Inc./Harry N. Abrams, Inc. . Kansas City, MO . 0-87529-701-3 . 44, 69, 407, 422 . paperback [Abrams cloth] . 8 December 2020.
  26. Book: Mees . Charles . Color Photography: An Authoritative Summary . 1921 . Tennant and Ward . New York . 143 . 9 October 2020.
  27. Web site: Peterson . Christian . Pictorial Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Approved Biography for T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. . luminous-lint.com . Luminous-Lint . 8 October 2020.
  28. Web site: Chicago Photographic Salon of 1900 . artic.edu . Art Institute of Chicago . 9 October 2020.
  29. Book: The American Amateur Photographer, Volume 12 . 1900 . The American Photo Publishing Co. . New York . 568 . 9 October 2020.
  30. London Salon . Photo Era: The American Journal of Photography . November 1901 . VII . 5 . 201 . 16 October 2020. Abel . Juan C. . Cummings . Thomas Harrison . French . Wilfred A. . Beardsley . A. H. .
  31. Web site: Photography at Important Art Exhibitions: Turin Decorative and Fine Arts Exhibition. . repository.library.brown.edu . Brown University Library . 13 November 2020 . T. O'Conor Sloane, Jr., of New Jersey.
  32. Photography at Important Art Exhibitions: Turin Decorative and Fine Arts Exhibition . Camera Work . January 1903 . 1 . 1 . 60 . 23 May 2023.
  33. Web site: Peterson . Christian . Pictorial Photography at the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Approved Biography for T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. . luminous-lint.com . Luminous-Lint . 8 October 2020.
  34. Book: Stieglitz . Alfred . Camera Work, No. 3. July 1903 . New York City . 28 September 2020.
  35. Sloane, Jr. . T. O'Conor . Photography as a Craft . The Photo-Miniature . January 1920 . XV . 178 . 401–431 . 9 October 2020.
  36. Web site: Westport Public Schools Digital Collections . 29 June 2018.
  37. Web site: Sloane Jr., Thomas O'Conor . ctstatelibrary.org . Connecticut State Library . 1 October 2020.
  38. Web site: Mixed papers Box 9 . norwalkpl.org . Norwalk Public Library . 1 . 9 October 2020.
  39. Web site: T. O'Conor Sloane Jr.: Photography . Creative Places: Arts & Letters in 20th Century Connecticut . Preservation Connecticut . 14 December 2022.
  40. Web site: Sloane Jr., Thomas O'Conor . ctstatelibrary.org . Connecticut State Library . 1 October 2020.
  41. Web site: T. O'Conor Sloane, Jr Auction Price Results . 7 July 2018.
  42. Web site: Thomas O'Conor Sloane Jr. . 7 July 2018.
  43. Web site: T. O'CONOR SLOANE JR. . 7 July 2018.
  44. Web site: "Marte-Marie" Early 1900s Gum Bichromate Print by T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. . 7 July 2018.
  45. Web site: Photographer: T. O'Conor Sloane Jr. . 7 July 2018.
  46. Book: Fels . Thomas . O Say Can You See: American Photographs, 1839-1939: One Hundred Years of American Photographs from the George R. Rinhart Collection . 1989 . The Berkshire Museum/The MIT Press . Cambridge, MA/London . 92 . 9780262061209 . 4 December 2020.
  47. Web site: "Cloud Study" Thomas O'Conor Sloane, Jr. (American, 1879–1963) . metmuseum.org . 7 July 2018 . 'Our Future is in the Air: Photographs from the 1910s' exhibition, November 10, 2010 through April 10, 2011..
  48. Web site: Sloane . T. O'Conor . Inventory of The Catholic University of America Photograph Collection . libraries.catholic.edu . The Catholic University of America, The American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives . 3 December 2020 . Box 15: Folder 4.
  49. Book: Penhall . Michele . Stories from the Camera: Reflections on the Photograph . 2016 . University of New Mexico Press . Albuquerque . 978-0826355898 . 203 . 16 October 2020.
  50. Web site: Works - The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art . art.nelson-atkins.org . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art . 8 October 2020.
  51. Web site: CMOA Collection . collection.cmoa.org . Carnegie Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute . 16 October 2020.
  52. Web site: Works: Artist/Maker: Thomas O'Conor Sloane Jr. . The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art . 14 December 2022.
  53. Web site: Collection . Addison Gallery of American Art . Phillips Academy . 13 December 2022.
  54. Web site: Sloane . Thomas O'Conor . Milwaukee Art Museum: 2011 Annual Report . 27 . mam.org . Milwaukee Art Museum . 15 October 2020.
  55. Web site: Sloane Jr. . Thomas O'Conor . Landscape with Trees . slam.org . Saint Louis Art Museum . 15 October 2020.
  56. Web site: "Cloud Study" Thomas O'Conor Sloane, Jr. (American, 1879–1963) . metmuseum.org . 7 July 2018 . 'Our Future is in the Air: Photographs from the 1910s' exhibition, November 10, 2010 through April 10, 2011..
  57. Web site: Sloane Jr. . Thomas O'Conor . Thomas Alva Edison . npg.si.edu . National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution . 15 October 2020.
  58. Web site: Larned . Gertrude . Fun with Folk Tales: Six Plays in Verse with Music and Songs . AbeBooks . abebooks.com . 2 January 2023.
  59. Web site: Gertrude Gabrielle Larned . Ancestry . ancestry.com . 2 January 2023.
  60. Web site: If . SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 24 June 2024.
  61. Web site: Worlds of IF Revival . Locus . Locus Publications . 24 June 2024.
  62. Web site: Galaxy Science Fiction . SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 14 August 2024.
  63. Web site: Galaxy Revival . Locus . Locus Publications . 10 August 2024.
  64. Web site: The Return of Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine . SCIFI.radio . Krypton Media Group, Inc . 10 August 2024.
  65. Web site: Silverwolf . Victoria . Galaxy SF #263, Vol.1, No. 1, August 2024 . Tangent . Dave Truesdale . 10 August 2024.

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