1916 Born September 12, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Parents, George Arnold and Clara (nee Haase) Schueler. Childhood and adolescence in Milwaukee where his father is a distributor of Hood tires.
1934 - 40 Studies at the University of Wisconsin. B.A. in Economics (1938). M.A. in English Literature (1940).
1940 - 41 Works for the New Haven Evening Register.
1941 - 44 Summer at the Breadloaf School of English as a scholarship student. Wants to be a writer. In September joins Air Corps of the United States Army. Basic training in the US. Marries Jane Elton, August 1942. (Divorced 1952.) Sent, November 1942, to Molesworth, England. B17 navigator, 303rd Bomber Group, 427th Squadron. Missions over France and Germany. Spring of 1943, Assistant Command Navigator, 8th Bomber Command. 1st Lieutenant. Hospitalized. Medical retirement 1944.
1944 - 47 Living in Los Angeles. Tries to write a book on his war experience, but meanwhile articles for magazines, radio announcing jobs and a scheme to set up a night club where Anita O' Day would be the principal singer. Builds a house in Topanga Canyon. Daughters Jamie and Joya born 1944 and 1946.
1945 Schueler and his wife sign up for a portrait painting class with David Lax in Los Angeles.
1947 - 48 Moves, with the family, to San Francisco, California, where he teaches English Literature at the University of San Francisco.
1948 - 51 Summer of 1948 at the California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute) : San Francisco. Decides to sign on full time for the fall semester. Particularly respects Clyfford Still, but also studies under Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Hassel Smith. Mark Rothko teaches there summer semester of 1949.
1951 In August, moves to New York. Clyfford Still introduces him to his friends; visits Rothko's studio; meets Newman, Kline, Reinhardt, etc.
1951 - 62 Lives in New York. Marries Joellen Hall Todd, Oct 1956. (Divorced March 10, 1959.)
1957 In September sails for Britain and sets up a studio in Mallaig, a small fishing village in Scotland.
1958 Leaves Mallaig in March. Visits Italy before finding a studio in the Parisian suburb of Clamart and then Arcueil.
1959 Returns in January to his studio in New York.
1960 - 62 Teaches at Yale Summer School, Norfolk 1960 and 1961. Visiting artist at Yale University School of Art, New Haven 1960-62. Lives in Guilford, CT, fall of 1960 to early summer 1961.
1962 Marries Judy Dearing, Jan 27. (Divorced April 25.)
1963 - 67 Visiting artist at the Maryland Institute.
1964 June 20, marries Mary Rogers. (Annulled May 5, 1965.)
1965 Summer in Galileo, Majorca, writing.
1967-Jan 1970 Based in Chester, CT.
1968 - 69 Head of Graduate and Undergraduate Painting and Sculpture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
1970 Travels to Scotland and finds a studio in Mallaig.
1970 - 75 Based entirely in Mallaig.
1971 Films of Scotland produces a half-hour documentary film on him.
1972 Spends three months in Paris, writing.
1975 Moves back to New York. Keeps the studio in Mallaig for the rest of his life. Most years spends three months in Mallaig.
1976 July 29, marries Magda Salvesen.
1981 The Talbot Rice Art Centre, University of Edinburgh, becomes his studio and exhibition space for 6 weeks while he paints enormous paintings.
1992 August 5, dies in New York.
1999 Publication of The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life, Picador USA

The Sky
When I speak of nature, I speak of the sky, because the sky has become all of nature to me. But it is most particularly the brooding, storm-ridden sky over the Sound of Sleat in which I find the living image of past dreams, dreams which had emerged from memory and the swirl of paint. Here I can see the drama of nature charged and compressed. Lands form, seas disappear, worlds fragment, colors merge or give birth to burning shapes, mountain snows show emerald green. Or, for a long moment, life stops still when the gales pause and the sky clears after long days of careening sound and horizontal rain or snow.
Jon Schueler

1954, 1961, 1963 Stable Gallery, New York, New York.
1957, 1959 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York.
1967 The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.
1971 The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1973 The Edinburgh College of Art, sponsored by Richard Nathanson.
1975 Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
1977 Landmark Gallery, New York, New York.
1980 The John C. Stoller Gallery, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1981, 1984 Dorothy Rosenthal Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1981 University of Edinburgh, The Talbot Rice Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1982, 1986, 1991 Dorry Gates Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri.
1983, 1984 A.M. Sachs Gallery, New York, New York.
1986, 1987, 1989, 1991, 1999 Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, New York.
1991 The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1995, 1996, 1999 ACA Galleries, New York, New York.
March 6-27, 1999 ACA Galleries, New York.

1954, 1955, 1957 Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture at the Stable Gallery, New York.
1955 "Vanguard 1955: A Painter's Selection of New American Painting," organized by Kyle Morris, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1969 Whitney Museum of American Art Annual.
1958. 1963 Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial, Washington, DC.
1958 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Nature in Abstraction: The Relation of Abstract Paintings and Sculpture to Nature in Twentieth Century Art."
1960 - 61 "School of New York: Some Younger Artists," Stable Gallery, and then toured by the American Federation of Arts.
1975 Cleveland Museum of Art, "Landscapes, Interior and Exterior: Avery, Rothko and Schueler."
1980, 1981 Landmark Gallery, New York, "Luminosity in Paint."
1984 Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland, "Creation: Modern Art and Nature."
1988 William Hardie Ltd. at the Edinburgh College of Art, "The Impact of Scotland on Two American Artists, Jon Schueler and Daniel Lang."
1994, 1997 The Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, "Land, Sea and Air."
1996 - 97 Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, "El Expresionismo Abstracto y La Experienca Estadounidense", catalogue by Irving Sandler.

March 18, 1999 Magda Salvesen at Posman Books - a talk to coincide with two retrospectives of Schueler's work.
November 5, 1999 "Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s and Beyond: The Career of Jon Schueler"
Speaker: Magda Salvesen. University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

American Telephone and Telegraph, NJ
Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Bank of America, CA
Chase Manhattan Bank, NY
Citibank, NY
City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland
Colby College, Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
First Bank of St. Paul, St. Paul, MN
Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, Scotland
Greenville Couty Museum of Arts, Greenville, SC
Hallmark Corporation, MO
Harwood Museum of Art, NM
Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery, Kirkcaldy, Scotland
Mallaig Heritage Centre, Scotland
McCrory Corporation, NY
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
Roy Neuberger Museum, NY
National Academy of Design, NY
Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Stirling University, Stirling, Scotland
Uniroyal Chemical Co., Inc., CT
Frederick Weisman Art Museum, MN
University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
West Highland Museum, Fort William, Scotland
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life, edited by Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau, was published by Picador USA in March 1999
Hardcover, 359 pp., 16 pages color and 32 b&w photos. ISBN 0-312-20015-3

Balliett, Whitney.
"Profiles: Jon Schueler and Magda Salvesen", The New Yorker, Feb. 25 1985.

Friedman, Bh.H., ed.
School of New York: Some Younger Artists, essay by Alastair Reid, (Grove Press, 1959).

Blueck, Grace.
The New York Times, Friday, March 12, 1999.

Hall, Douglas
The Scotsman, Aug 14, 1992.

Landauer, Susan.
The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism, (University of California Press, 1996).

Life Magazine,
"Old Master's Modern Heirs", Monet: Jon Schueler, Sue Mitchell, Hyde Solomon, Sam Francis, Jean-Paul Riopelle, December 2, 1957.

McChesney, Mary Fuller
A Period of Exploration: San Francisco 1945-1950, (The Oakland Museum, 1973).

Sandler, Iriving.
The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (Harper and Row, 1978).

Sandler, Iriving.
Abstract Expressionism and the American Experience Catalogue for the exhibition at the Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico city, 1996-97.

Schueler, Jon.
The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life, ed. Magda Salvesen and Diane Cousineau (New York: Picador USA, 1999).

Schueler, Jon.
"Letter about the Sky", It is, No. 5, Spring 1960.

Seitz, William C.
Abstract Expressionist Painting in America, (Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard University Press).

Smith, Roberta.
obituary, The New York Times (Aug 6, 1992).

Terra Nova,
"The Sound of Sleat", p. 98-111, Volume 1, Number 4, Fall 1996.

Unpublished script of documentary film
Jon Schueler: An Artist and His Vision, (Edinburgh: Films of Scotland, 1971). Script in the possession of M. Salvesen.

Estate of Jon Schueler