Addison Art Gallery, Fine Art Gallery on Cape Cod

Paul Schulenburg is an internationally collected artist whose work has shown in the Hopper House Museum, twice in solo shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, and in many group exhibitions at CCMA, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and Cahoon Museum of American Art. He has appeared over a dozen times in respected national art publications including a feature in Fine Art Connoisseur, as well as on the cover of American Art Collector. Schulenburg won the Patrons’ Choice Award at the Copley Society of Art and was awarded a month long residency at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown MA. He is juried member of Oil Painters of America and the Portrait Society of America. In 1987 he was commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum to create a portrait of museum trustee Eliot Forbes.

For 20 years, Paul created award-winning art for publication worldwide. His client list included: Digital Equipment Corporation, Cigna, Fidelity Investments, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lucent Technologies, Sunoco, TIME, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Cahners, Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin, and Ziff-Davis.

Paul earned a BFA in painting at Boston University School of Fine Arts where he studied with Joseph Ablow, Sidney Hurwitz, and John Wilson. Boston University provided an educational foundation that emphasized the fundamentals of classical art training: anatomy and form, color, composition and draftsmanship.

Schulenburg’s oils can be found in prestigious collections throughout the United States, in Canada, Europe and Hong Kong.

Awards

2024 Figurative Award, Oil Painters of America National Juried Show, Wichita KS
2022 Best in Show, North River Art Society
2022 Oil Painters of America
2021 Portrait Society of America
2020 Rockport Art Association and Museum
2019 Rockport Art Association and Museum
2019 Salmagundi Club
2019 Ridgewood Art Institute
2018 Plein Air Magazine
2018 Salmagundi Club
2017 Salmagundi Club
2016 National Oil and Acrylic Painters Society
2006 Copley Society of Art
2005 Copley Society of Art
2004 Fine Arts Work Center Residency
2003 Copley Society

I was initially struck by both the colors and the subject — the orange of the coveralls and blue of the gloves. I admire how Paul paints whites, as in a T-shirt. And the subject: there is no doubt as to the occupation, so much a part of our New England heritage and the Cape that I love so much. The composition tells a story. You can see the look of concentration on his face as they make their final approach. Paul has a talent for showing us beauty in the everyday: clothing on a clothesline blowing in a summer breeze, a young fisherman pulling into port. He makes us look at the ordinary in a new light and through his eyes and his talent, we are enlightened. — Janice Reece

Paul Schulenburg

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