biography of Jon R. SCHUELER (1916-1992)

Birth place: Milwaukee, WI

Death place: NYC

Addresses: Los Angeles (1944-47); San Fran. (1947-51); NYC (1951-57); Chester, CT (1967-70); Scotland (1970-75)

Profession: Abstract painter, lecturer

Studied: Univ. Wisconsin (B.A., economics, 1938; M.A., English Lit., 1940); portraiture with David Lax, 1945; Calif. Sch FA, 1948-51, with David Park, Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Hassel Smith, Clyfford Still, Clay Spohn.

Exhibited: Stable Gal., 1954 (1st NYC solo), 1961, 1963 (solos); Castelli Gal., NYC, 1957 (solo), 1959 (solo); WMAA, 1957-69 1975 (solo); Baltimore MA, 1961; Corcoran Gal. biennials, 1959, 1963; Walker AC, Minneapolis, MN; Maryland Inst., 1966, 1967 (solo) Univ. Illinois, 1968 (solo); Davison AC, Wesleyan Univ., 1970 (solo); Edinburgh College, Scotland, 1973 (solo); Cleveland MA, 1975; Cornell Univ.; Univ. Edinburgh, Scotland, 1981 (solo); Perlow Gal, NYC, 1986-89, 1991 (solos); ACA Gal., NYC & Munich, 1995-96 (solos)

Member: College AA Am.

Work: WMAA; NAD; Colby College MA; Glasgow AG, Scotland; Greenville (SC) County Mus. Art; Minneapolis IA; Neuberger Mus., Purchase, NY; Weisman Art Mus., Minneapolis; Union Carbide Corp. Coll. Commissions: lithographs, New York Hilton Hotel, 1962.

Comments: Publications: contrib., "Letter on the Sky," It Is magazine. Teaching: English Lit., Univ. San Fran., 1947; lecturer, painting, Yale Univ. Summer Sch. Art, 1960-62; head art dept., Univ. Illinois; Maryland Inst.

Sources: WW73; John I.H. Baur, Nature in Abstraction (Macmillan, 1958); B.H. Friedman (ed.), School of New York (Grove Press, 1959); Lloyd Goodrich & John I.H. Baur, American Art of Our Century (WMAA, 1961). B.H. Friedman, exh. cat., ACA Gal. (NYC, 1996)