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.
The April NEWS for Jon Schueler is available
here.
Current Exhibitions
Two Schueler Paintings Included in: Shifting Vistas: 150 Years of
Scottish Landscape
Light: Island and Sea, I,
1971,
o/c 131
Light: Island and Sea, III,
1971,
o/c 132
June 24, 2023 to June 2, 2024 City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Photos curtesy of the CAC
Upcoming Solo Show
Jon Schueler: Sing Blues in Grey
Eton College, Windsor, UK: The Drawing Schools
Sept. 28 -- Nov. 5, 2023
Open to the General Public Sat. and Sun. 2.30- 5.30 pm
Curated by Diana Ewer for the Jon Schueler Foundation
Sing Blues in Grey: Reflection oil on canvas1975 63 x 70in/160 x 178 cm o/c 634
Light Over Skye oil on canvas1983 72 x 65in/183 x 165cm o/c 1343
Recent Solo Shows
Coming up for Air: An Exhibition of Paintings by Jon Schueler
London Art Fair 2022, April 21-24th., Business Design Centre, Islington, UK Waterhouse & Dodd
Booth
Look into Red oil on canvas Scotland, 1988 24 x 28 in/60.96 x 71.12 cm o/c 1553
Yellow Sky, Romasaig oil on canvas Scotland, 1989 12 x 16 in/30.48 x 40.64 cm o/c 1622
Red Sky Romasaig oil on canvas Scotland, 1989 12 x 16 in/30.48 x 40.64 cm o/c 1623
The Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York presents:
Night Sun A/P lithograph1962 22 x 17 inches
Salon Du Papier
Featuring over 50 works on paper by acclaimed mid-20th-century avant-garde artists, including Jon
Schueler.
January 17 - April 2, 2022
Newly Published Book
Strategy: Get Arts
Strategy: Get Arts cover
35 Artists Who Broke the Rules
by Christian Weikop
See pp.56-79 Art Education, Joeph Beuys, and Jon Schueler
[open
article: pdf, 55MB]
PhD Doctoral Candidate, University of St Andrews
Lecture on Jon Schueler by Joe Boyd
Jo Boyd
Joe Boyds's thesis (for the summer of 2023) is titled
Steeped in Place. Encountering Scotland in Paintings of the Sea.
At least half of it will address Jon Schueler's work and thought. University of Lincoln,
UK
Doctoral Conference, Feb. 23, 2022
[open video: mp4,
360MB]
Lost Man Blues: A Virtual Talk with Curator, Marissa Roth
Installation Photos from Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, March 27-June 13, 2021
Online Exhibition
Jon Schueler and Artists Who Painted the West Coast of Scotland,
curated by Victoria Keller is now available for viewing on the Art UK
site: https://bit.ly/3fFHgBf
From left to right:
o/c 62-5 Morning and the Sea, 1962, 35 x 48 in/88.9 x 121.92 cm
dr.61-51 Landscape: Deep, c.1961, 19 x 23 3/4 in/48.26 x 60.33 cm, crayon/pastel/ink
o/c 68-20 Loch Eishort: Summer Memory, 1968, 40 x 52/101.6 x 132.08 cm
Sea Island Waiting oil on canvasNew York, 1978 36 x 60 inches / 91.44 x 152.4cmo/c 894
Separate Ways: Storm and Sea oil on canvas1975 48 x 44 incheso/c 608
Waterhouse & Dodd
47 Albemarle Street
London WIS 4JW london@waterhousedodd.com
June 18-July 12, 2019 Catalogue
Opening, June 18, 6-8pm
Special Friday late opening, June 28, 6-8pm
Special Saturday opening, June 29,11am-5pm
Special Sunday opening, June 30, 11am to 5pm
Recent Acquisitions
Transition oil on canvas1955 54 x 60 inches / 137 x 152cmo/c 55-6
The entire museum has been turned over to the multi-media exploration of blue in many incarnations.
It spans history and geography, from the precious lapis lazuli of antiquity to paintings, photographs,
sculpture,
ceramics, cyanotypes, and fashion. As Miró said, "This is the color of my dreams."
Evening Landscape oil on canvas1956 20 x 26 inches / 51 x 66 cmo/c 56-21
Masterpiece London Art
Fair
June 27-July 3, 2019
Visit the Waterhouse & Dodd, booth #A11, to see some Schueler paintings
Grey and Yesterday's Blues oil on canvas1985 36 x 30 inches / 91.5 x 76 cmo/c 1459
Light and Grey Clearings oil on canvas1984 16 x 20 inches / 40.5 x 50 cmo/c 1419
25 years of Collecting: The UW Art Museum Collection
The Sea is Red oil on canvas1958 67 x 72 incheso/c 58-44
North to Ornsay oil on canvas1979 60 x 73 incheso/c 994
The University of Wyoming
Museum of Art at Laramie, WY has included two of its Jon Schueler paintings in: 25 years of Collecting: The UW Art Museum Collection
July 28, 2018 - Jan. 26, 2019
American Masters 1940-1980
The First Day oil on canvasNew York 1956 48 x 90 incheso/c 56-30
The National
Gallery of Australia, Canberra
24 Aug - 11 Nov 2018
This exhibition examines how a generation of young Americans challenged
local traditions and reinvented modern art.
Turbulence I oil on canvas1958 28 x 35 incheso/c 56-28
The Nassau County Museum of
Art,
Roslyn, NY is using its Jon Schueler oil, Turbulence I, 1958, 28" x 35" (o/c 56-28)
as part of the exhibition Master Class: Hans Hofmann.
Other artists include Lee Krasner, Wolf Kahn, Helen Frankenthaler and Fritz Bultman.
January 27 - June 3, 2018
CCASM MODERN & CONTEMPORARY
Changes oil on canvas1974 36 x 32 incheso/c 481
Chris Clifford and Stephen McCoubrey open a new gallery CCASM
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY on the island of Jersey, off the coast of England.
The opening exhibition, September 15 -November 3, 2017, showcases Jon
Schueler, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Francis and Robert Motherwell, with a
small survey of Henri Matisse prints, 1920s to 1950s.
Loch Scavaig oil on canvas1957 35 1/4 x 57 1/4 incheso/c 57-37
Crocker Art Museum,
Sacramento, CA
A Schueler is included in Diebenkorn's Circle: Paintings by Abstract
Expressionists of the California School of Fine Arts and Beyond,
Oct 8, 2017-January 7, 2018
Art of Our Time
Winter Sunday oil on canvas1958 80 x 71 incheso/c 58-5
Berry Campbell, New
York
November 17-December 23, 2016
Berry Campbell
530 West 24th Street, New York 10011
tel. 212-924-2178
Opening reception: Thursday, November 17, 6-8pm
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.
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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more book reviews
or the book index.
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![[Jon Schueler with manuscript, Romasaig, Mallaig]](/images/bookcovers/52_Jon_Schueler_w_manuscript_Romasaig_ Mallaig-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Shifting Vistas]](/images/installations/Shifting-Vistas-oc131-and-oc132-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Sing Blues in Grey: Reflection]](/images/paintings/oc634EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Light Over Skye]](/images/paintings/oc1343EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Storm: Loch Eishort]](/images/paintings/oc68-22EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[The Search: Summer Sky, Black]](/images/paintings/oc1152EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Yellow Sky, Romasaig]](/images/paintings/oc1622EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Night Sun]](/images/paintings/lith62-11-EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Flora Biddle on Jon Schueler]](/videos/bh-friedman-on-jon-schueler-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War]](/images/installations/1-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War]](/images/installations/3-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War]](/images/installations/6-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War]](/images/installations/7-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War]](/images/installations/14-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[A Yellow Sun]](/images/paintings/oc58-55EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Sleat]](/images/paintings/oc379EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Burning]](/images/paintings/oc56-12EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[April Sky]](/images/paintings/oc63-17EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Storm]](/images/paintings/oc62-14EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Sound Memory]](/images/paintings/oc481EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Mood with Magda: Blues and Greys]](/images/paintings/oc442EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Strategy: Get Arts cover]](/images/bookcovers/SGA_cover-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Jo Boyd]](/images/people/Jo_Boyd-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Lost Man Blues]](/images/paintings/oc1549EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Fairfield University Art Museum]](/images/paintings/fairfield_oc62-5_dr61-51_oc68-20-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Sea Island Waiting]](/images/paintings/oc894EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Weathering I]](/images/paintings/oc1596EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Schueler in The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish_Literature]](/images/bookcovers/The_Poetics_of_Space_and_Place_in_Scottish_Literature.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Separate Ways: Storm and Sea]](/images/paintings/oc608EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[September Blues]](/images/paintings/oc812EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Light]](/images/paintings/oc832EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[To What End Does This Achieve?]](/images/paintings/oc1510EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[Magda's Blues: II]](/images/paintings/oc1023EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Evening Landscape]](/images/paintings/oc56-21EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Grey and Yesterday's Blues]](/images/paintings/oc1459EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Light and Grey Clearings]](/images/paintings/oc1419EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[The Sea is Red]](/images/paintings/oc58-44EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[North to Ornsay]](/images/paintings/oc994EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[The First Day]](/images/paintings/oc56-30EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Turbulence I]](/images/paintings/oc56-28EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
![[Loch Scavaig]](/images/paintings/oc57-37EM-display.jpg "Click for large image")
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![[To the North - book cover]](/images/bookcovers/book-to_the_north-th.jpg "cover of book To the North")
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