Thomas L. Sloan

Teacher, writer, raconteur, and inveterate collector Thomas L. Sloan died January 18, 2019. He was eighty years old. Thomas received a B.F.A. from the University of Nebraska, 1960 and a Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern, 1972. Thomas taught in the Department of Art History, Theory, & Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1986 until he became Professor Emeritus in 2005. For more than half a decade, was also the chair of his department. Prior to SAIC, he was an assistant professor at Princeton University, 1965-73 and Northwestern University, 1965-73. In the early 1980s, he also taught at the University of Virginia. Thomas is survived by nieces Angela Sloan Hagedorn Jackson and Leslie Sloan Hagedorn Stackhouse; nephew Craig Sloan Hagedorn; the eight children between them, and one grandchild. He is also endured by his loyal companion, Beerbohm, who has bequeathed books and prints to SAIC's Flaxman Library, the Art Institute of Chicago's Ryerson Library, and the museum's Prints & Drawings Collection. Tom will be laid to rest in a private graveside service on Monday, January 28th at the Lincoln Memorial Cemetery in his hometown of Lincoln, Nebraska. A memorial service is being planned in Chicago for the spring. Arrangements by Cremation Society of Illinois, 773-281-5058 or www.cremation-society.com.