Dr Kim Sloan is a Canadian art historian.

Career

Sloan worked for the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in 1986 where she curated an exhibition on

Alexander Cozens Alexander Cozens (1717–1786) was a British landscape painter in watercolours, born in Russia, in Saint Petersburg. He taught drawing and wrote treatises on the subject, evolving a method in which imaginative drawings of landscapes could be wor ...

from November 1986-January 1987. The exhibition then traveled to the

Art Gallery of Ontario The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO; french: Musée des beaux-arts de l'Ontario) is an art museum in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The museum is located in the Grange Park neighbourhood of downtown Toronto, on Dundas Street West between McCaul and Bev ...

with additional works by his son

John Robert Cozens John Robert Cozens (1752 – 14 December 1797) was a British draftsman and painter of romantic watercolour landscapes. Cozens executed watercolors in curious atmospheric effects and illusions which had an influence on Thomas Girtin and J.M. ...

and was on display January–March 1987. In 1992, Sloan became the curator of British Drawings and Watercolours before 1880 at the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. While at the British Museum, Sloan has worked primarily on Sir William Hamilton and his collections at the

, the watercolours of J. M. W. Turner, and the

Hans Sloane Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Irish physician, naturalist, and collector, with a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Mu ...

collections. From 2000, Sloan was the lead curator creating the new Enlightenment Gallery at the

, which presents the history of the collection in the

King's Library The King's Library was one of the most important collections of books and pamphlets of the Age of Enlightenment.British LibraryGeorge III Collection: the King's Libraryaccessed 26 May 2010 Assembled by George III, this scholarly library of over ...

after the library collection moved to the

British Library The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the British ...

. The new gallery opened in 2003 and Sloan maintains curatorial responsibility for the Enlightenment Gallery. From September 2007 - January 2008, Sloan was the Leverhulme Fellow at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Bibliography

*''A Noble Art: Amateur Artists and Drawing Masters, C.1600-1800''. British Museum Press, 2000, 256 pages.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sloan, Kim Employees of the British Museum Living people Canadian art historians Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Canadian art curators Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women curators