ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS Meyer East Gallery Elmer "Skinny" Wayne SchooleyElmer Schooley (1916-2007) is described as a "painter's painter" by his peers and is nationally recognized for his magnificent landscape. His oils have been compared to those of Renaissance masters because of his minute attention to detail and patient layering of paint and because of their luminosity. Schooley retired 1977 after teaching New Mexico Highlands University for 30 years. During most of those years he was head of the department of Arts and Crafts and was a moving force in the arts in northern New Mexico. He established the University's art library and it’s Graphics Department. For his students' benefit he developed an art gallery which exhibited works by individual artists from around New Mexico and also held many group exhibitions. He led numerous out-of- state excursions, taking his students to exhibitions of national and international importance.
After his retirement in 1977, the Schooleys spent a year in joint residency at the Roswell Museum and Art Center and they lived in Roswell the rest of their lives. Over the years Elmer Schooley’s work has garnered numerous awards and prizes, including the Museum of New Mexico’s Biennials in 1970, ’72 and ’74; a Ford Foundation purchase prize in 1962; a Hallmark Purchase Award in 1964 and the New Mexico Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Visual Arts in 1986.
His paintings are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Albuquerque Museum, the Museum of New Mexico, Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico Highland’s University, the Hallmark Collection, Pacific University, Kathryn Cawein Gallery of Art, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Fine Art University of Fine Art University of Oklahoma,
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Artist's Spotlight Haystacks, Paradise Valley by Hoekstra Studio Painting 14x11x1"
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