Dorothy Van Loan

EDUCATION
West Philadelphia High School
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1925-1929 winter sessions)
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Chester Springs - summer session)
Philadelphia Print Club (1929-1936)
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1927-1946)
Philadelphia Graphic Sketch Club (1928-1935)

AWARDS
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1927 Cresson Award
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1928 Cresson Award
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1929 Toppan Award
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1929 Packard Award
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1934 Honorable Mention
Philadelphia Sketch Club 1935 Medal
Philadelphia Art Alliance 1936 Medal
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1945 Harrison Morris
Philadelphia Print Club 1945 Prize

EXHIBITIONS
Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1927-1946,1960
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1931,1932,1933,1935,1940-1945
Philadelphia Sketch Club 1935,1944,1945
Philadelphia Print Club 1935,1942,1945,1960
An American Place - Alfred Stieglitz, NY 1938
Nashville Museum of Art 1941
Carnegie International, PA 1941,1942,1945,1946
Ragan Gallery, Philadelphia 1941-1943
Woodmere Gallery, Philadelphia 1941-1945
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1943
National Academy of Design, NY 1943,1945
The Washington Water Color Club 1944
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond 1945
Philadelphia Museum of Art 1946
Philadelphia Art Alliance 1947-1953,1960
La France Art Institute 1947
The Brooklyn Museum, NY 1948,1958
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1958
Newmann Gallery, Philabdelphia 1960
Los Angeles Museum of Art, CA
Mint Museum of Fine Art, Richmond

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Watkins Gallery, Philadelphia 1935
Philadelphia Art Alliance 1936,1945
Marie Sterner Gallery, NY 1937,1939
Gimbel Gallery, Philadelphia 1937
Philadelphia Print  Club 1944
Penn Art Center Galleries, Philadelphia

COLLECTIONS
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
American Library of Color Slides
Philadelphia Art Alliance
An American Place - Alfred Steiglitz
Mr. & Mrs. Alex G. Baxter
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Katz
Dr. & Mrs. R. J. McGrath
Nashville Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
National Academy of Design, NY
Carnegie International, PA
Woodmere Gallery, Philadelphia
The Brooklyn Museum, NY
Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

PUBLICATIONS
Who’s Who in American Art - 1943
Harpers, “Experiencing American Pictures” by Ralph Person - 1943
American Artists, “American Prize Prints of the Twentieth Century” by Albert Reese - 1949
Who’s Who in American Women - 1959
Dictionary of International Biography - 1963