Jon Schueler

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.

New Traveling Exhibition

Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War Lost Man Blues oil on canvas 1988 18 x 16 inches o/c 1549: Opening October 2018, & touring 2019 through 2021. Curated by Marissa Roth.
For bookings and information, please contact The Jon Schueler Estate.
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Opening at the Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT on November 1, 2018 cancelled due to fire and extensive water damage. The showing at this venue has been postponed until Nov 5-Dec 18, 2020.

Recent Solo Show

Jon Schueler: Sky as Landscape Summer Blues oil on canvas 1981 69 x 76 inches o/c 1191: LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, NM
August 31-September 29, 2018
Reception August 31, 2018

Current Group Exhibitions

25 years of Collecting: The UW Art Museum Collection The Sea is Red oil on canvas 1958 67 x 72 inches o/c 58-44 North to Ornsay oil on canvas 1979 60 x 73 inches o/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
Boundless Visions The Sound of Sleat: Echo, I oil on canvas 1975 40 x 48 inches o/c 635: Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, Montana
August 22, 2012 onwards

Upcoming Group Exhibitions

Lens and Canvas: Catharsis from World War II: Curated, and book publication, by Laura Whitcomb
February - March 2019
Foster Gwinn Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Latest Museum Acquisitions

To What End Does This Achieve? oil on canvas 1987 44 x 66 inches o/c 1510: Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- watercolor on canvas 1978 6 1/2 x 10 inches w/c 398: Mills College, Oakland, CA
Sun oil on paper 1959 20 x 26 1/4 inches o/p 59-10: de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Storm: Red Shadow Over Sleat, II oil on canvas 1974-75 52 x 60 inches o/c 568: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA

Recent One-person Exhibitions view more

The 19 Jon Schueler Oils in the Collection Grey Snow Cloud oil on canvas 1960 32 x 40 inches o/c 60-6: University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
July 1-Sept 9, 2017
Jon Schueler: Weathering Skies Winter Storm watercolor on paper 1968 5 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches w/c 68-64: University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, WY
April 1-June 24, 2017.
Reception June 2, 2017
Jon Schueler: The Women Paintings of the 60s Phyllis oil on canvas 1965 63 x 68 inches o/c 65-7: 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

Recent Group Exhibitions view more

American Masters 1940-1980 The First Day oil on canvas New York 1956 48 x 90 inches o/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 canvas 1958 28 x 35 inches o/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 canvas 1974 36 x 32 inches o/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 canvas 1957 35 1/4 x 57 1/4 inches o/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 canvas 1958 80 x 71 inches o/c 58-5: Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Nov 4, 2016 - Oct 1, 2017
Out of the Frame Storm at Sea Remembered oil on canvas 1974 69 x 76 inches o/c 531: The McManus, Dundee City Art Gallery, Scotland
November 3, 2016 to May 28, 2017
Selections from the Collection Untitled oil on canvas 1950 44 x 48 inches o/c 68-11: Turtle Bay Museum of Art, Redding, CA
October 1, 2016-January 15, 2017
A centenary display of the museum's two watercolors Two watercolors watercolor on paper 1972 11 3/4 x 15 5/8 inches (left) 11 1/2 x 15 1/2 inches (right) w/c 84 (left), w/c 85 (right): Museum of Wisconsin Art, West Bend, WI
November 3-December 30, 2016
Oversized: Contemporary Art from the Collection & New Acquisitions: The Museum Collection The Sea is Red oil on canvas 1958 67 x 72 inches o/c 330: University of Wyoming Art Gallery, Laramie, WY
May 28-August 20, 2016
Gesture: Expression in Modern Art Reflection oil on canvas 1973 70 x 63 inches o/c 330: Paisley Museum and Art Galleries, Scotland
July 16-September 26, 2016
CLOUDS, TEMPORARILY VISIBLE Sleat Remembered: Light, I 1973 76 x 69 inches o/c 393: WEISMAN ART MUSEUM, MINNEAPOLIS, MN
JANUARY 30-MAY 22, 2016

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.: Email: More...; 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

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.

Available at local bookstores in the US and the UK
Available at online booksellers such as
Powell's Bookstores, Chicago,
Amazon.com (US), Amazon.co.uk (UK), or BarnesandNoble.com

Videos and DVDs

"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 and DVDs page.

Jon Schueler (1916-1992) – Artist

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