Jon Schueler (1916-1992) – Artist

When I speak of nature, I speak of the sky, because the sky has become all of nature to me. But it is most particularly the brooding, storm-ridden sky over the Sound of Sleat in which I find the living image of past dreams, dreams which had emerged from memory and the swirl of paint. Here I can see the drama of nature charged and compressed. Lands form, seas disappear, worlds fragment, colors merge or give birth to burning shapes, mountain snows show emerald green. Or, for a long moment, life stops still when the gales pause and the sky clears after long days of careening sound and horizontal rain or snow.

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Publications

Monograph – Jon Schueler: To the North

Essays by Gerald Nordland and Richard Ingleby.
Merrell, October 2002.
ISBN 1 85894-177-6.
128 pages, 132 illustrations, 108 in color.
Price : £25, $35. paperback/flaps.

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Autobiography

The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life, Edited by Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau Published by Picador USA, March 1999. Hardcover, 359 pp. 16 pages color and 32 b&w photos. ISBN 0-312-20015-3 $30 US, £20 UK.

"It is an amazing, totally peculiar piece of work. It may be the best thing ever written about the workings of a painter's mind and eye."
— The Atlantic Monthly, May 1999.
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Catalogue

"Jon Schueler: About the Sky"

Sweet Briar College, VA, 1999