Jason Schoener

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Jason Lloyd Schoener (1919 – 1997) was an American painter and teacher.

Biography

Jason Lloyd Schoener was born in 1919 in

and continued as a teacher and administrator there for more than forty years. Jason and his wife, Virginia Worley Schoener, spent nearly every summer of their marriage at their summer home and studio in Georgetown, Maine, just down the road from the Zorach farm. Jason Schoener died at his home in Oakland, California, in 1997.^[2]

Paintings

Schoener’s early paintings were narrative and featured the working men and women he encountered in his daily life. By mid-career, Jason was primarily painting abstract landscapes in brilliant and often surprising color. His work was influenced by his teaching, his travel, and those with whom he exhibited around the country. Jason Schoener showed his work frequently, from coast to coast. Between 1960 and 1983 Schoener exhibited primarily at Midtown Gallery in New York, under the direction of Alan D. Gruskin. His fellow exhibitors included Edward Betts, Hans Moller, William Palmer, Waldo Peirce, William Thon, and Robert Vickrey, among many others.^[3] Jason Schoener’s work is in the collections of

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