The Georgetown Historical Society, in association with West Island Gallery and Susie Westly Wren, will offer an exhibition and sale of the work of Jason Schoener this autumn.

For the past 30 years this largely-unseen collection of Schoener’s work has been stored in an old barn and was part of the gallery inventory of the late Tom Crotty of Frost Gully Gallery. It dates from 1962 to 1994. Wren and Crotty worked together to bring Schoener’s Georgetown collection to market in 2007. As the person responsible for cataloging Schroener’s lifetime of work, Wren is bringing this collection to market for the Schoener estate.

In 1967, Schoener said of his abstractions of nature “… it is necessary to eliminate the extraneous and intensify those details important to my feeling about the subject.”

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1919, Schoener came from a family of distinguished American artists. He was the nephew of sculptor William Zorach and his wife, painter Marguerite Zorach and cousin of Dahlov Ipcar.

Schoener’s extensive career included more than 20 solo exhibitions around the country and numerous group shows at the Midtown Gallery in New York. Schoener showed with well known artists such as Edward Betts, Hans Moller and William Thon. His work is in the collections of the Oakland Museum, the Whitney, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the University of Maine and Colby and Bowdoin Colleges, among others.

The exhibit is sponsored by West Island Gallery. For more information, visit westislandgallery.com.