As residents of the North Coast and Humboldt County we know we have great scenery and great artists painting it. We also know that Stock Schlueter is one of our stars with a national audience and from time to time he is acknowledged for it in a big way.
This time Stock can be found gracing the cover and six pages in the June issue of Southwest Art Magazine. Southwest Art is a premier publication covering the who’s who and what’s what for artists and collectors of “western art.” The magazine covers most everything besides the New York art-world and is much more than cowboys on horseback and contemporary Native American art. The magazine even covers art of the Pacific Northwest and this month includes Stock’s paintings of the Humboldt Bay bottom lands, Alton, Hopland and Trinidad.
The article about Stock is written by Virginia Campbell as part of a collection covering adventures in plein-air painting and it is available at your favorite bookstore.
In the article Campbell writes, “Over the the last couple of years, Schlueter has deliberately retraced the ground of some of his earlier paintings. The venture has strengthened his long-held conviction that no intellectual concept can compete with plein-air painting for creating good pictures. ’Some of the things I’m painting now, I simply couldn’t have painted the last time I was there,’ he observes. In the intervening decades he has acquired more and subtler ways of capturing that fresh sensation of the eye moving over landscape.”
For June we will have on display a selection of Stock’s paintings includeing the two seen here. More of his work can be seen at the websites of Meridian Fine Art, John Pence gallery and Stock Schueter.
