Magda SalvesenMagda Salvesen was brought up in Edinburgh, Scotland. After obtaining an MA from the University of St Andrews in 1966 (with a scholarship year at Sweet Briar College, VA, USA from 1964 to 1965), she did graduate work in art history at the Courtauld Istitute, University of London (MA 1968), and then worked for the Scottish Arts Council in Edinburgh. She met the American artist Jon Schueler in 1970, and after living with him in the Western Highlands of Scotland she followed him to New York in 1976 where they were married. Since then, she has lectured on art history at the New School University and elsewhere; and, from 1988 to 2009 taught landscape design history and theory and other courses at the New York Botanical Garden. Between 2011 and 2021 she was part of the Department of Art, Architecture History, and Urban Studies at NYU as adjunct assistant professor. She co-edited with Diane Cousineau The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life by Jon Schueler, Picador USA, 1999, to be republished in 2023; was the director and executive producer of the video Jon Schueler: A Life in Paint in 1999; and acted as consultant editor for Jon Schueler: To the North, Merrell Publishers, Ltd., London, 2002. In 2005 Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, co-edited with Diane Cousineau, was published by Rutgers University Press (republished in 2022) and in 2011 Exploring Gardens and Green Spaces from Connecticut to the Delaware Valley, was published by WW Norton. She lives in New York where she was the curator of the Jon Schueler Estate from 1992 until she became the President of the Jon Schueler Foundation in 2022. Read More Read Less