His paintings and etchings are in museums in California, Missouri and Washington, D.C.. Van Sloun was born in 1879 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
[2] Van Sloun became an artist in New York City, and he moved to San Francisco in 1911.
[1] He painted murals in the Oakland City Hall, the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, and the California State Library in Sacramento.
With Maynard Dixon, he did the murals of the dining-room in the Mark Hopkins Hotel, in San Francisco.
He was completely a product of America, not only in his art training but in his subject matter and technique.