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August 9 -
September 30, 2001
traveling exhibit organized by Sweet Briar College Art Gallery

Orange and White,
1952, 77" x 70"

A Woman
in Love, 1964, 66" x 73"
I remember
thunderheads forming over Lake Michigan, when I was a child, and
later, one summer, when I stayed alone at my grandfather's farm
on the edge of the lake near Sheboygan. I remember...watching
rainsqualls beating on the lake and the towering forms, black to
me now, containing fantastic power, lightening flashes, crash
and roll of thunder, wisps of rain against the screen. The power
within the thunderheads, light, cloud, lake sky, beating and
throbbing, waves pounding on the shore, sky mystery endless - I
wanted to be sucked up into it and be part of its power.

Jon
Schueler in his Mallaig Studio, 1973
(photograph by Magda Salvesen)
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