Works by Jon Schueler at Waterhouse & Dodd: To coincide with the exhibition 'Sing Blues in Grey' at Eton College

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 and priced at £7,000 to £50,000.

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. Much of his career, even while in New York, was spent examining nature. But as he later said, "I am not a nature painter, although deeply concerned with nature. My most profound impulse is to confront myself and my thoughts on the canvas." 

Thus he would commit to memory the changing skies and patterns of cloud and mist and sea, and later in his studio, as he described it, "all alone, he (the artist) looks at the bare canvas and looking at the bare canvas he now confronts himself, and somewhere, somewhere out of that comes the vision."