Rae Sloan Bredin (1880 - 1933)

Born 9 Sep 1880 in Butler, Pennsylvania, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Alice Rachel (Price) Bredin — married 14 May 1914 in Bucks, Pennsylvania, United States

Died 16 Jul 1933 at age 52 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

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Rae Bredin is Notable.

Rae Sloan Bredin was born 9 Sep 1880 at Butler County, Pennsylvania the son of Stephen and Catherine (Sloane) Bredin.^[1] and lived in Franklin, Venango, Pennsylvania.^[2]

He graduated from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York in 1899^[3] and then studied at the New York School of Art from 1900 to 1903 under James Carroll Beckwith, William Merritt Chase and Frank DuMond. He went on to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia where he studied under director Thomas Anshutz and Robert Henri. He first appeared in an Academy exhibition in 1907, and was represented there regularly for the rest of his life.^[4]

1914 was a momentous year for Sloane as he both married Alice Price from a family of burgeoning influential artists and dealers but also won the Julius Hallgarten Prize at the annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design. The marriage to Alice took place 14 May 1914 on the Price family farm in Solebury, Pennsylvania.^[5] It is interesting to note that not too long after this, novelist James A Michener became a family friend while teaching in the Bucks County schools. The family made their home in Solebury.^[6][7]

At the 1915 San Francisco Exposition he won the bronze medal and in 1921 the Maynard Prize of the National Academy of Design. Among many other awards were the Vezin Prize of the Salmagundi Club of New York and the bronze medal at the Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition. Five of his murals are in the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.^[8]

In 1916 Bredin, Charles Rosen, Morgan Colt, Daniel Garber, William Langson Lathrop and Robert Spencer formed The New Hope Group to arrange for exhibitions of their work. In its first two years, the New Hope Group exhibition traveled to at least nine sites, including the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Detroit Museum of Art and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. In 1917, Sloane formed a teaching endeavor with Edmund Greacen but the short-lived venture ended when he went to France the next year to serve in the French "Foyer du Soldat" where Bredin headed a hospital near the rear lines of Troyes.

He taught a number of places including the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art (Shinnecock Hills, New York), the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the Philadelphia School of Design for Women where he was teaching at the time of his death.

In 1933, he was diagnosed with colon cancer and died 16 Jul 1933 at Joseph Price Hospital, Philadelphia, a few days after surgery for the cancer.^[1] For a discussion of his artistic style, the reader is referred to his Wikipedia page (link under See Also) as well as sources cited for that article.

Children

• Jean - b 1916^[6][7]
• Barbara - b 1917^[6][7]
• Stephen - b 1923^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission; Harrisburg, PA; Pennsylvania (State). Death Certificates, 1906-1968; Certificate Number 58565
2. ↑ US Census, Year: 1900; Census Place: Franklin, Venango, Pennsylvania; Roll: 1491; Page: 7; Enumeration District: 0144; FHL microfilm: 1241491
3. ↑ Peterson, Brian H.; Gerdts, William H. (2002). Pennsylvania Impressionism. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3700-5.
4. ↑ Dearinger, David Bernard (2004). Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826–1925. Hudson Hills. ISBN 978-1-55595-029-3
5. ↑ Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Solebury Monthly Meeting minutes.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} US Census, Year: 1920; Census Place: Solebury, Bucks, Pennsylvania; Roll: T625_1543; Page: 5B; Enumeration District: 54
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3} US Census, Year: 1930; Census Place: Solebury, Bucks, Pennsylvania; Page: 13A; Enumeration District: 0065; FHL microfilm: 2341742
8. ↑ The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · Tuesday, July 18, 1933

See Also:

Rae Sloan Bredin at Wikipedia