Woman in the Sky

Magda Salvesen met American painter Jon Schueler when she was 26 and he was 54. A few months later, he wrote a will leaving her the entire body of his work.

WOMAN IN THE SKY tells the extraordinary story of Magda Salvesen, who met Abstract Expressionist Jon Schueler in Scotland when she was 26 and he was 54. A few months later he wrote a will leaving her the entire body of his work. Since Schueler’s death in 1992, Salvesen has donned the mantle and secured his legacy, ensuring its preservation.

Reflecting on three decades as Schueler’s partner, and even more as the unlikely guardian of his artistic output – longer than Schueler himself ever spent with his paintings – Salvesen offers an intimate portrait of both a widow and art historian fiercely committed to her late husband’s creative memory. What emerges is an epic love story writ small across hundreds of canvases and thousands of pieces of archival paper.

WOMAN IN THE SKY is a film about art, love, legacy and the one way march of time.