JON SCHUELER – TWO EXHIBITIONS
TWO CONCURRENT EXHIBITIONS OF PAINTINGS BY JON SCHUELER AT ETON COLLEGE AND SAVILE ROW
JON SCHUELER - SING BLUES IN GREY
An exhibition of thirty paintings and watercolours from the 1970s and 1980s by Jon Schueler of Scottish skies.
In The Drawing Schools at Eton College, 28th September - 5th November
A seminal show of 30 abstract skyscapes by the critically acclaimed American artist Jon Schueler (1916-1992) who served as a navigator on a US Airforce B-17 bomber in World War II. The artist’s remarkable war experience, flying in the Plexiglass nose of the plane, fed a lifelong ambition to capture from memory the evocative and fleeting moods of the sky on canvas …
JON SCHUELER AMERICAN & SCOTTISH PAINTINGS, 1956-1990
To coincide with the exhibition 'Sing Blues in Grey' at Eton College, we present a group of paintings by Jon Schueler, painted between 1956 and 1990.
At 16 Savile Row, London W1S 3PL, 29th September - 27th October
Jon Schueler was one of the second generation of Abstract Expressionist painters, a group of artists who confirmed New York's place at the very centre of the art world. In the 1950's, along with fellow artists like Joan Mitchell, Norman Bluhm, Mark Rothko and Franz Kline, he ate most nights at the Cedar Street Tavern, and like them he did battle with the blank canvas, baring his soul and committing his feelings to it with honesty, sensitivity and integrity …