John Stephan

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

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, then 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