title: John Stephan
text: # John Stephan
  
  John Walter Stephan (1906–1995) was an American painter in the Hard-edge style. His magazine The Tigers Eye was widely read and is considered a lastingly influential magazine of art and literature. He was a contemporary and friends with such notable artists as Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and William Baziotes
  
  ## Early life
  
  John Stephan was born in Maywood, Illinois to a father who was a dentist and a mother who was a nurse, and his family moved to Chicago in 1917 he attended the University of Illinois and later the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
  
  ## Career
  
  After attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he worked as an Art Instructor at Jane Addams Hull House, in Chicago and later was a Draftsman, at Western Electric in Chicago. His first solo exhibition was in 1931 with many other solo and group exhibitions of note.
  
  ## Personal life
  
  He was married to Ruth Walgreen, than Ruth Stephan, who was the daughter of Walgreens founder Charles Rudolph Walgreen.
  
  ## Notable exhibitions
  
  * 9th Street Art Exhibition
  
  ## Notable collections
  
  * Yale University Art Gallery
  * Smithsonian American Art Museum
  * Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  * Rose Art Museum
  