Frank J. Van Sloun

Frank Van Sloun (1879-1938) was an American painter, muralist and etcher. He painted murals in California. His paintings and etchings are in museums in California, Missouri and Washington, D.C..

Life Van Sloun was born in 1879 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He was influenced by Rembrandt from a young age, and he studied at the Art Students League of New York and the Chase School of Art, later known as the Parsons School of Design. It is also in the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, Saint Mary's College Museum of Art in Moraga, and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri.