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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, 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, Champaign-Urbana.

1970     Travels to Scotland and finds a studio in Mallaig.

1970-1975     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

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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.

Selected Group Exhibitions

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."
1960-1961     "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.