Exhibitions 2006
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Jon
Schueler: The Sign of the Gale
Jepson
Center for the Arts I June 20 - September 10, 2006
Jon
Schueler (1916-1992) was an American master who produced ethereal
canvases reflecting the profound influence of nature, in particular
the wild skies and countryside of the Scottish highlands. Schueler
studied at the California School of Fine Arts under Clyfford Still
and Richard Diebenkorn. He arrived in New York in 1951, during the
ascendancy of Abstract Expressionist luminaries Mark Rothko, Willem
de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, all of whom influenced his work.
In 1957 Schueler left New York for Scotland, setting up a studio
in the small fishing village of Mallaig in the western highlands
on the Sound of Sleat. For the remainder of his life, he would return
to Scotland where the light and weather of the western coast were
lasting influences on his canvases, reflecting the transitory and
turbulent moods of sea and sky. Organized by ACA Galleries in New
York, the exhibition will be on view in the Steward and Kane Galleries
of the Jepson Center for the Arts.
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