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 perform 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 next as swirling arrangements of solution color and light. And they shift put taking place to and forth in our vision from one pole to the other, amassing richness from both.” In 2006, at the mature of solo exhibitions of his appear in in Edinburgh and New York, art reviewer Janet McKenzie wrote of “his remarkable loyalty and go forward as a era painter, abstract, yet inspired by natural phenomena.” Schueler himself wrote: “When I speak of nature, I’m speaking of the sky, because in many ways the spread became flora and fauna to me. And considering I think of the sky, I think of the Scottish sky on pinnacle of Mallaig.”
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