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Title:	Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler - Art and War
Date:	3/27/2021 - 6/13/2021
Address:	Fort Wayne Museum of Art, 311 E Main St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802,
Location:	Fort Wayne, IN
Hours:	Tuesday - Saturday: 10am-6pm, Thursday: 10am-8pm, Sunday: 12-5pm
Cost/Cover:	Free to members, $8 - adults, $6 - students (PreK-college), $6 - seniors 65+, $20 - families
Web Page:	https://www.fwmoa.org/exhibition/jonschueler
Contact Info:	260-422-6467

Details:

Lost Man Blues: Jon Schueler — Art and Waris a landmark exhibition that encompasses one of the persistent motifs that Abstract Expressionist artist Jon Schueler infused into his paintings and wove into his writings—his experiences during World War II when he served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Corps. His war memories and undiagnosed PTSD haunted him and continually found expression in his post-war work. Following medical retirement in 1944, Jon Schueler embarked on a career path of painting, first in San Francisco and then in New York. In 1957, after successful exhibitions, he consciously chose a kind of creative exile and went to Mallaig, a small fishing village on the west coast of Scotland in sight of the Isle of Skye. Without fully understanding why, he centered himself in this rugged, volatile environment for months at a time over decades, painting quickly in inspired bursts of energy charged with his full life force. The weather and light of this area became a touchstone for his preoccupation with the power of nature—whether expressed tumultuously or in subtle and hardly visible forms. Vigorously responding to the emotions evoked by the clouds, sky, sea and land, he lived, in a way, inside of his paintings, and without realizing it, slowly started healing his unseen war wounds.