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.

The April NEWS for Jon Schueler is available here.

Current Exhibitions

Divergent Paths: Ernest Briggs and Jon Schueler: Anita Shapolsky Gallery, 152 E. 65th Street, New York 10065
April 6-June 3, 2023. Extended through July 8th, 2023.
anitashapolsky@gmail.com
Link to Press Release

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

Recent Solo Shows

Coming up for Air: An Exhibition of Paintings by Jon Schueler: Waterhouse & Dodd, 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL. Tel. +44 (0) 20 7734 7800
Sept. 30—Oct. 28, 2022
Brochure

Recent Group Shows

London Art Fair 2022, April 21-24th., Business Design Centre, Islington, UK
Waterhouse & Dodd Booth
The Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York presents:: 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]

Two new 4 minute films

By Max Woertendyke: Flora Biddle on Jon Schueler
[open video: m4v, 183MB]
: BH Friedman on Jon Schueler
[open video: m4v, 124MB]

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Solo Touring Exhibition

Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War Lost Man Blues oil on canvas 1988 18 x 16 inches o/c 1549: Curated by Marissa Roth, this exhibition tours through 2023.
The next showing is at the National Veterans Memorial and Museum, Columbus, OH from Sept 15, 2023 to Feb. 12, 2024
For bookings and information, please contact The Jon Schueler Estate.
Brochure and Proposal

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

Former Group Shows

Precious Gems: February 6, 2021 - May 1, 2021,
Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
: Waterhouse & Dodd
15 East 76^th Street, New York
Dec. 1, 2020--Jan. 11, 2021
Modern and Postwar Art
Click here for online catalog

Latest Museum Acquisitions

: Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT

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 canvas New York, 1978 36 x 60 inches / 91.44 x 152.4cm o/c 894: Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne IN
Weathering I oil on canvas 1989 10 x 12 inches / 35.4 x 30.48cm o/c 1596: Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Gift of Phillip Bruno

Past Art Fairs

: Waterhouse & Dodd showed 4 Jon Schueler paintings at Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, West Palm Beach, January 9-12, 2020. Booth 430
: Waterhouse & Dodd showed 6 Jon Schueler paintings at the London Art Fair, UK,
January 22-26, 2020, Booth 33.

Upcoming Group Exhibitions

Lens and Canvas: Catharsis from World War II: Exhibition curated by Laura Whitcomb
Accompanying book (Norfolk Press)
Still in the planning stage

Latest Publication

: The essay by Mary Ann Caws, Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Intensity and Identity (with 13 illustrations), has been published in The Poetics of Space and Place in Scottish Literature, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, edited by Monika Szuba and Julian Wolfreys

Recent Solo Show

Jon Schueler (1916-1992): Skyscapes Separate Ways: Storm and Sea oil on canvas 1975 48 x 44 inches o/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 canvas 1955 54 x 60 inches / 137 x 152cm o/c 55-6: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Sun Clouds oil on canvas 1956 23 x 36 inches / 58 x 91cm o/c 56-4: Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
September Blues oil on canvas 1976 18 x 24 inches / 75 x 61cm o/c 812: Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
Light oil on canvas 1977 30 x 36 inches / 76 x 92cm o/c 832: University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford. CT
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 Group Exhibitions view more

BLUE Magda's Blues: II oil on canvas New York, 1979 79 x 120 in/200.66 x 304.8 cm o/c 1023 Jon Schueler Estate: Nassau County Museum of Art. Reopening July 2020 until November 1, 2020

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 canvas 1956 20 x 26 inches / 51 x 66 cm o/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 canvas 1985 36 x 30 inches / 91.5 x 76 cm o/c 1459 Light and Grey Clearings oil on canvas 1984 16 x 20 inches / 40.5 x 50 cm o/c 1419: Lewellen Galleries, Santa Fe
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
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

Ongoing Group Shows

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

Recent One-person Exhibitions view more

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
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

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,
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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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