Jason Schoener

Jason Lloyd Schoener (1919 – 1997) was an American painter and teacher.

Jason Lloyd Schoener was born in 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, son of Harry and Ida (Finkelstein) Schoener. Jason was afterward the nephew of the artiste William Zorach and cousin of artiste Dahlov (Zorach) Ipcar. He studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Case Western Reserve University, the Art Students League of New York, and Columbia University. After serving in the Navy, at Eniwetok Atoll, during World War II, Schoener started his teaching career at the Jersey Preparatory School in Jersey City. He moved upon to the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute where he taught sculpture, ceramics and crafts. In 1953 he began teaching at the California College of Arts and Crafts and continued as a theoretical and administrator there for beyond forty years.
Jason and his wife, Virginia Worley Schoener, spent nearly all summer of their marriage at their summer house and studio in Georgetown, Maine, just beside the road from the Zorach farm.
Jason Schoener died at his house in Oakland, California, in 1997.

Schoener’s to the front paintings were narrative and featured the committed men and women he encountered in his daily life. By mid-career, Jason was primarily painting abstract landscapes in brilliant and often surprising color. His play was influenced by his teaching, his travel, and those similar to whom he exhibited regarding the country.
Jason Schoener showed his law frequently, from coast to coast. Between 1960 and 1983 Schoener exhibited primarily at Midtown Gallery in New York, under the running of Alan D. Gruskin. His fellow exhibitors included Edward Betts, Hans Moller, William Palmer, Waldo Peirce, William Thon, and Robert Vickrey, among many others.
Jason Schoener’s pretense is in the collections of Colby College, Bowdoin College, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Columbus Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum, the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, the San Francisco Theological Seminary and St. Mary's State College, among others. The Schoener papers are housed in the hoard of the Archives of American Art.