Paul Schulenburg

After receiving a gold medal from the National Scholastic Art Awards in 1975, Paul attended Boston University School of Fine Arts. Contrary to the trends of that time, Boston University provided an educational foundation that emphasized the fundamentals of classical art training: anatomy and form, color, composition and draftsmanship. His professors included Joseph Ablow, David Aronson, and John Wilson. He received his BFA degree in painting in 1979.

In the 1980s and ‘90s Paul created artwork for publication. His work won many awards and has appeared and been published worldwide. Former clients include: Digital, Cigna, Fidelity, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sunoco, TIME, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Cahners, Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin and Ziff-Davis.

Paul now lives and paints primarily in Massachusetts, in the outer parts of Cape Cod. He was featured as the cover artist on the July 2007 issue of American Art Collector magazine and has been featured numerous times since then. Fine Art Connoisseur magazine Featured Schulenburg in 2021. He has had two solo shows at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. In 2004 Paul was awarded a one month residency at the Fine Art Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He is a member of Oil Painters of America, American Impressionist Society and the Salmagundi Club in NYC.

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

 

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

Paul Schulenburg Website