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Jon Schueler (September 12, 1916–August 5, 1992) was an American artist. more...

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Biography

For a timeline, see Jon Schueler chronology

Schueler was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He first had the desire to become a writer, and after he acquired his Masters degree at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1940, he worked for a short time as a journalist. His writing skills helped him articulate his artistic sensibilities throughout his life.

The Second World War interrupted his writing, and he spent three years in the United States military. From 1941 to 1944 he trained in the Army and the Air Force; he became a navigator in the plexi-glass nose of a B-17 Flying Fortress bomber, guiding it on missions out of Molesworth, England, over France and Germany.

After the war, he moved to San Francisco, California and taught English. Schueler studied at the California School of Fine Arts where he met Clyfford Still, one of the staff. He also studied with David Park, Hassel Smith, and Richard Diebenkorn.

Excited by the Abstract Expressionism to which he was exposed, Schueler moved to New York City, New York in 1951, where Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko had studios. He soon became part of the New York School of artists and his first solo exhibition was in 1954, at the Stable Gallery.

In September 1957, Jon set up a studio in Mallaig Vaig, Scotland, just to the north of Mallaig. In November he went out on a fishing boat, The Margaret Ann, for the first time. That winter was especially difficult, due to personal issues and severe snowstorms.

This experience is also reflected in the following quote:

There now have been three massive experiences I have had with the Scottish sky. The first, in March of 1958, when I had given up and, aching in my head and eyes and soul, I cycled from Mallaig Vaig to the white sands of Arisaig, where I watched the snow clouds moving toward me, implacable, from the sea. One passed over and through me, snow beating against my face. Then I turned to the south and saw the winter sun glowing in the snow cloud; strange image of light burning and dying through the shadows of a changing form. Though the sun was a winter sun, it translated itself in my mind to the most powerful and vibrant colors, reds, yellows, Indian yellows, or sometimes alizarin through blue.

From the 1960s onward, the colors in his paintings covered a narrower range, suggesting mood, rather than motion. Schueler's handling of his medium became more delicate and expressive in his paintings as he further developed his personal artistic aura, and moves beyond Abstract Expressionism.

After his first stay, in 1958 to 1959, Jon yearned to return to Mallaig, Scotland. But various circumstances only permitted a few visits until 1970, when he settled there for almost five years. Meanwhile, he had painted in New York, and Chester, Connecticut. Schueler exhibited in both solo and group shows, and taught as a visiting artist at both Yale University and the Maryland Institute of Fine and Applied Arts, (now the Maryland Institute College of Art).

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