An exhibition of paintings by abstract expressionist/color field painter
Jon Schueler still has open venues.  If you are interested, contact me at
the address below.

The Jon Schueler exhibition will open at Sweet Briar College Art Gallery,
Sweet Briar, VA, during the latter part of  1999, with eight to ten
other venues following in the next two and one-half years.

The exhibition will consist of 25-40 oil paintings, chosen to represent the
main periods of the artist's work from 1953 to 1990.   In these paintings,
Schueler utilized the stylistic elements of abstract expressionism and
color field painting, to create paintings about clouds, fog, mist.

The exhibition will be accompanied by an illustrated catalog and video
which will list all of the exhibition hosts.  Catalogue essayist is
Professor of Art History at Sweet Briar College, Diane Degasis Moran, whose
PHD work was on the San Francisco abstract expressionist group. Schueler's
widow, art historian Magda Salvesen and/or Diane Moran will be available to
lecture on Jon Schueler's life and work during the exhibition.

The exhibition will occupy approximately 300 running feet (2000 square
feet) and the rental fee (including pro-rated shipping) will be in the
vicinity of $5000.

Schueler's autobiography, The Sound of Sleat is under contract and w/
release expected in 1999.

For a packet of materials and/or more information, contact me at:
Rebecca Massie Lane
Director of College Galleries & Arts Management
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA  24595
804-381-6248
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http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/

Jon Schueler Biographical Summary

        Born in Milwaukee, WI in 1916, and a graduate of  the University of
Wisconsin, (BA, Economics, 1938,  MA, English Literature, 1940), Schueler's
youth was spent  fighting in World War II in the US Air Corps and in
pursuit of a writing career.  He taught English Literature at the
University of San Francisco (1947-48).  At the age of 32, he entered the
California School of Fine Art, San Francisco, where he studied with
Clyfford Still, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Hassell Smith.  He had
a one-person show at the Metart Gallery, San Francisco in 1951.  After
three years of art school (1948-51), he moved to New York City where
Clifford Still introduced him to Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Franz Kline,
and Ad Reinhardt.  Schueler lived and worked in New York from 1951-1958 and
was given one-person exhibitions at the Stable Gallery (1954), and by Leo
Castelli (1957, 1959).  He was reviewed in Art  in America  as "New Talent"
in Spring 1958.  His work was exhibited regularly thereafter in New York,
Chicago, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and in Edinburgh, London, and Mallaig,
United Kingdom.  He taught as a visiting artist at Yale University School
of Art (1960-62), the Maryland Institute of Art (1963-67), and was Head of
Graduate and Undergraduate Painting and Sculpture at University of
Illinois, Champaign-Urbana (1967-69).  In addition to his painting, he also
spent periods of time writing, notably a summer in Majorca (1965) and three
months in Paris (1972). .  He first discovered the village of Mallaig,
Scotland in 1957.  In 1970 he found a studio there which he would maintain
along with his New York residence for the rest of his life.  He died in
1992.  Schueler was a prolific artist, leaving paintings in some 50 public
and private collections, and over 1500 in his estate.


Rebecca Massie Lane
Director of College Galleries & Arts Management
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA  24595
phone:  804-381-6248
fax:  804-381-6173
[log in to unmask]
http://www.artgallery.sbc.edu/