Barefoot guitar player with eyeglasses, beard and military style hat.

Schoener, Jason.

Published by Oakland, Calif., ca. 1960s.

About this Item

Lithograph. Unsigned impression on rag paper 13 x 10 inches sheet size. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1919, Jason Schoener came from a family of distinguished American artists. He was the nephew of sculptor/painter William Zorach and his wife, painter Marguerite Zorach. Beginning in 1939, Schoener spent his summers at the Zorach family farm in Georgetown, Maine, where he studied art with his Uncle William. After service in the Pacific during WWII, Schoener served as an instructor, department chairman, and dean at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, CA. Schoener's other teaching assignments included Mills College in Oakland, California, and the Athens Technological Institute in Greece. Meanwhile, Schoener continued to use his Georgetown and then Robinhood homes Maine as a summer studio. Over the span of almost two decades, Schoener had several solo exhibitions at the Midtown Gallery on East 57th Street in New York City. His works are in many museum and private collections, including the Oakland Museum and the Whitney Museum in New York. He died in 1997.

Seller Inventory # 51-0072

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Barefoot guitar player with eyeglasses, beard and military style hat.
• Publisher: Oakland, Calif., ca. 1960s.
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • American