Jasper artist’s work on exhibit at Evansville Museum

The Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science is currently hosting a retrospective of the watercolors of Jasper resident Myra Schuetter through February 9, 2025.

Schuetter’s 50-year career spans the 1970s until the present day. She credits several people with getting her started on the range of watercolors that you will see.

A class with DePauw professor Bill Meehan led her to the decision to pursue watercolor full-time in the early 1970s. Meehan and Richard Peeler, another DePauw professor encouraged Schuetter in her career choice. In the mid-1980s, the owner of a gallery in Bethesda, Maryland, Phil Desind, encouraged her to paint larger with more contemporary arrangements.

This exhibition starts with rural landscapes, namely barns and old houses, and then her transition to still life, which she continues creating to this day.

Her work has been described as breathtaking by Anderson Turner of the Akron Beacon Journal, and “heroic in scale” by Tom Wachunus, Canton Ohio journalist and artist in his art blog ARTWATCH in Canton. Others who
have experienced standing in front of her work describing Schuetter’s art as “epic” and meticulous realism.

Myra’s goal is, “to build a feast for your eyes. I want you, the viewer, to get caught up in the richness of detail, the play of light and textures and the intense color, and to never be disappointed in what you have looked more closely to see.”

Here is an interview with the art curator at the museum.

She and her husband, Wayne, have journeyed through street shows, art fairs, galleries, and museums with their dedication to supporting a well-chosen path.

It is an honor to present this fifty-year retrospective which will inform the eyes and hearts of all those who see it. This exhibition and its attendant catalog have been made possible by generous grants from the Efroymson Family Fund, the Martha and Merritt deJong Foundation, and anonymous donors.