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.

photo - Jon looking out over the Sound of Sleat

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Currrent Group Exhibitions

Upcoming One Person Shows

 

Upcoming Group Exhibition

[Small Painting, III]

Small Painting III   1950
20" x 24"   o/c 50-42

Suitcase Paintings: Small Scale Work by Abstract Expressionists
This exhibition, which originated in 2007 at the Georgia Museum of Fine Art and then traveled to Ball State University, was also shown at the Sydney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York City May 3 - June 4, 2008. Catalogue with essay by April Kingsley available.





Recent One-person Exhibitions

[Summer Sky: Loch Eishort]

Summer Sky: Loch Eishort   1966
78.5" x 72.75"   o/c 66-14


 
[Blues: Evening Song]

Blues: Evening Song   1976
48" x 44"   o/c 824

20 Years (and Still Counting)

 
[Blue Series, I]

Blue Series, I
oil on canvas   1973
14 x 12 inches   o/c 326

Jon Schueler: A Homecoming
April 20 – June 2, 2007

 
[Snow Cloud over the Sound of Sleat]

Snow Cloud over
the Sound of Sleat

oil on canvas,
89-3/4in x 78in
New York 1959,o/c 59-13

Jon Schueler: The Sign of the Gale
Curated by, and catalogue essay by Victoria Keller
January 22 to February 25, 2007
Reception: February 2, 2007, 4.30-7.30 pm
Curator's Presentation: Sunday, February 4, 1-4 pm
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[Light and Black Shadow - 1977]

Light and Black Shadow
oil on canvas,
69in x 76in, 1977

Liverpool Street Gallery
Sydney, Australia
February 3 to March 1, 2007
Reception: Thursday, 8 February.
Email


 

[Sun and Red Snow Cloud - 1960]

Sun and Red Snow Cloud
oil on canvas,
48in x 62in, 1960

Jon Schueler: The Sign of the Gale
Telfair Museum of Art
Jepson Center
Savannah, GA, USA
June 20 – September 10, 2006
Curated by Victoria Keller. Organized by ACA Galleries, New York. Sponsored by Telfair Museum of Art
Catalogue available, 26 pages with 26 color reproductions and 1 black and white photo.
Essay by Victoria Keller.
$15 from ACA Galleries: Email:

 
[September Crossing - 1960]

September Crossing
oil on canvas,
225cm x 203cm, 1960

Jon Schueler: Five Decades (drawings with oils)
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
January 27 to 11 March 2006

 
[Time Has Three Suns]

Mural Study II for
"Time Has Three Suns,"

oil on canvas,12in x 64in
1959,o/c 59-17

Time Has Three Suns
January 21 - February 18, 2006
ACA Galleries,529 West 20th St, NY, NY 10011
Catalogue, including interview with B.H. Friedman

 
[A Yellow Sun - 1958]

A Yellow Sun – detail
oil on canvas,
1958, o/c 58-55

Jon Schueler: The Sound of Sleat
June 4, 2005 – March 19, 2006
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
75 Belford Road, Edinburgh EH4 3DR
Scotland

 
[To the North - poster]
To the North: Paintings by Jon Schueler
July 5-September 27, 2003
City Art Centre, Edinburgh
2 Market Street
Edinburgh EH1 1DE, Scotland


 

Recent Group Exhibitions

Summerset 2008
 
[North of Ullapool]

North of Ullapool   1967
79 x 73 inches   o/c 67-2

The Art of Gesture
 
[Shadows of Frozen Rain]

Shadows of Frozen Rain   1985
30 x 36 inches   o/c 1474

Clouds
 
[Black Light]
Black Light
oil on canvas
89-3/4in x 79-3/4in
New York, 1953,o/c 53-4
A Culture in the Making:
New York and San Francisco in the 1950s and 60s
January 11-March 3, 2007
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Pairings II: Discovered Dialogues in Postwar Abstraction
November 3 - December 31, 2005
Hackett-Freedman
250 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94108
Tel. 415-362-7152
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Line Study - black and white - 1951
Line Study – Black + White
70in x 50in
1951, o/c 51-6

Black
March 11 - April 23, 2005
Thomas McCormick Gallery
835 West Washington Boulevard
Chicago, IL 60607
Tel: 312.226.6800
Mary Abbott, David Budd, Fritz Bultman, Herman Cherry, Perle Fine, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Melville Price, Robert Richenburg, Jon Schueler, David Smith, Yvonne Thomas and Esteban Vicente.
A 28-page catalog with an essay by Robert Long accompanies the exhibition.



Paintings

Publications

Monograph – Jon Schueler: To the North
[To the North - book cover]
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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Available at local bookstores in the US and UK and online at:
Amazon.com or BarnesandNoble.com (USA)
Amazon.co.uk/Waterstone's Bookstore (UK)

 

Autobiography

[Sound of Sleat - book cover] 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.   See more book reviews or the book index.


 

Catalogue

"Jon Schueler: About the Sky"
Sweet Briar College, VA, 1999

Videos

"Jon Schueler: A Life in Painting"
An overview of his life and work. Made from archival and new material.
Winner of several awards.
More information on this and other videos on the Videos page.
Copyright © 2001-2008 Estate of Jon Schueler
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