Sleat

At the end of The Sound of Sleat, in 1979, Schueler celebrated a triumph with a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

The Sound of Sleat is one of the most vivid verbal self-portraits we have of the painter as a seeker.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

From a later generation, Jon Schueler's The Sound of Sleat adds another vivid self-portrait of the modern painter as an experimental artist.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

The success of The Sound of Sleat as a self-portrait is a product of Schueler's honesty and of his eloquence.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

The success of The Sound of Sleat as a self-portrait is a product of Schueler's honesty and of his eloquence.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

From a later generation, Jon Schueler's The Sound of Sleat adds another vivid self-portrait of the modern painter as an experimental artist.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

Schueler reported a conversation the two had as they sat on a hill looking across the Sound of Sleat to the Isle of Skye: "What people don't realize," Heller said, "is that your work is completely abstract."

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

Schueler reported a conversation the two had as they sat on a hill looking across the Sound of Sleat to the Isle of Skye: "What people don't realize," Heller said, "is that your work is completely abstract."

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

The Sound of Sleat is one of the most vivid verbal self-portraits we have of the painter as a seeker.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011

At the end of The Sound of Sleat, in 1979, Schueler celebrated a triumph with a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum.

David Galenson: Self-Portrait of an Experimental Painter: Jon Schueler and The Sound of Sleat David Galenson 2011