Sloane, Joseph C.

Joseph Curtis Sloane (1909-1998), son of Joseph C. and Julia L. Moss Sloane, was born 8 October 1909, at Pottstown, Pa. As chair of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Art, Sloane was an important leader in promoting art in North Carolina in the 1960s and 1970s. Sloane helped lead the movement to build the new North Carolina Museum of Art, which opened in 1983. As director of Ackland Art Museum, he helped build the collection. During his tenure at Bryn Mawr College in the 1950s and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he served as president or chair of various art-in-education organizations, such as the National Council of Arts in Education and the North Carolina Arts Commission. His academic specialties were nineteenth-century French art and twentieth-century art. The art library in Hanes Art Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is named for him.

From the guide to the Joseph C. Sloane Papers, 1909-1998, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.)

Joseph C. Sloane was chair of the art departments at Rutgers University and Bryn Mawr College before serving as chair of the Art Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1950-1974, and director of the Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1958-1978.

From the description of Joseph C. Sloane papers, 1909-1998. WorldCat record id: 25696782