Jon Schueler

Jon Schueler (September 12, 1916 – August 5, 1992) was an American painter known for his large-scale, abstract compositions which evoke nature. Recognized first as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist he lived in New York City and in Mallaig, Scotland, inspired by the dramatic skies exceeding the Sound of Sleat. His accomplishment is included in international collections such as the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art (Edinburgh), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and the National Gallery of Australia (Canberra).

In 1975 Whitney Museum of American Art director John I. H. Baur described Schueler's distinctive style: "We look his paintings one minute as clouds and sea and islands, the bordering as swirling arrangements of resolution color and light. And they shift support and forth in our vision from one pole to the other, amassing richness from both." In 2006, at the become old of solo exhibitions of his perform in Edinburgh and New York, art reviewer Janet McKenzie wrote of "his remarkable duty and build up as a times painter, abstract, yet inspired by natural phenomena." Schueler himself wrote: "When I talk of nature, I’m speaking of the sky, because in many ways the flavor became flora and fauna to me. And taking into consideration I think of the sky, I think of the Scottish sky over Mallaig."