John Stephan

{{short description|American painter}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2015}}

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| name = John Walter Stephan

| image = John stephan circle number 5 1982.jpg

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| caption = Circle number #5 by John Stephan

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1906|12|29}}

| birth_place = Chicago

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|07|1|1906|12|29}}

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| nationality = American

| alma_mater = Art Institute of Chicago

| spouse = Ruth Walgreen Stephan Dart

| field = Oil painting, Mural

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| movement = Abstract Expressionism

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John Walter Stephan (1906–1995) was an American painter in the Hard-edge style.{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/h/hard-edge-painting|title=Tate Glossary, Hard-edge painting|work=Tate Glossary|accessdate=August 8, 2009}} His magazine The Tigers Eye was widely read and is considered a lastingly influential magazine of art and literature.{{cite web|url=http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v30.n16/story20.html|title=Yale bulletin, The Tigers Eye|work=Yale University|accessdate=August 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160825102230/http://www.yale.edu/opa/arc-ybc/v30.n16/story20.html|archive-date=August 25, 2016|url-status=dead}} He was a contemporary and friends with such notable artists as Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still and William Baziotes