Paintings & Picture Frames for Auction
My name is Paul Schumacher, originally from Detroit, Michigan and a permanent resident of Marquette.
After meeting online at the Christian Café website in 2009, Susan Vasquez Reyes and I married in Seattle, Wa., on May 1, 2013. I then brought Susan home to Marquette where we made our home.
In February of 2016, my wife, Susan V. Reyes Schumacher, was diagnosed with Stage 4, non-small cell, non-smoker, lung cancer. An artist, Susan had emigrated from the Philippines. She hand-picked all the tree bark, rocks, shells, driftwood and pebbles herself from the beaches and woods where she walked. She then turned them into beautiful art. In our home on West Crescent St. in Marquette, Susan created some of her most remarkable frames and paintings. She sold and mailed them all over the world! Susan kept painting right up until the day she had to go to the hospital. Four days later, on June 8, 2017, the world truly lost an amazing daughter, sister, wife and artist. Susan left behind more than 90 painting and picture frames.
To honor her legacy, I am having a Memorial Fundraising Art Sale. Certainly, Susan would be thrilled to see me organize a sale of her artworks, and to donate 100% of the profits to benefit Cancer Care of Marquette County, Care Clinic of Marquette, and The Superior Health Foundation. I selected Cancer Care of Marquette County because they helped Susan and I financially when she was ill. Care Clinic of Marquette was our favorite charity to donate to. The Superior Health Foundation was selected because of their work in helping Cancer victims as well. I have priced Susan’s art based on the prices she sold them.
My sincere hope is even more money will be contributed in addition to each sale to far exceed that goal! The more funds we raise, the more people will be helped in Susan’s name!
All of the works of art sold will include:
• A letter of Authentication • Official Obituary
• A packed and protected artwork
• Pictures of Susan with Paul Schumacher
• A brief story of Susan’s Life
• 100% assurance your contribution will benefit those in need in Marquette County
Please Note: Shipping is not covered in the sales price. However, for convenience it can be added to the final sale price.
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The following items will be available for auction during this event.
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101. Little Presque Isle - Oil, Lombardy Poplar Tree Bark 7x32
Susan and I love Little Presque Isle 6 miles north of Marquette. We used to go there all year round. One of her most favorite places to go. Susan hand picked the tree bark from Middle Island beach where the Lombardy Poplars are now all gone. It is painted on the smooth inside of the bark. It has mounting wire installed on the back.
102. Pictured Rocks Lovers Leap - Oil, Lombardy Poplar Tree Bark 10x41
One of the first places I took Susan was to Pictured Rocks. She probably took over a thousand pictures while we were on the boat cruise. This was one of them.
Susan hand-picked the tree bark from Middle Island beach where the Lombardy Poplars are now all gone. It is painted on the smooth inside of the bark. It has mounting wire installed on the back.
103. Picnic Rocks - Oil, Keweenaw White Sandstone
11x19
Susan had me collect the white sandstone from the east coast of the Keweenaw to paint on. We lived across the road from Picnic Rocks and Susan spent a lot of time there while I was working.
104. Presque Isle Rocks - Oil, Keweenaw White Sandstone 12x15
Presque Isle in Marquette was one of Susan’s favorite places to go. This was on the East end of the Island, at low water in 2014.
105. McCarty’s Cove and Lighthouse (Small Rock) - Oil, Keweenaw White Sandstone 9x15
Susan’s love for the iconic Marquette Lighthouse is evident in this painting. She loved the beach being right across the street from our apartment in 2013.
107. Girl with Teddy in Snow - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Susan loved children. When she came to Marquette, she loved the snow too, hence these wonderful winter scenes.
108. Tube Sledding - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Susan had a child like love of snow. We spent lots of time playing in the snow together. I think her Snow Series reflect her love of snow.
109. Snow Day - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Susan was wary of her ability to paint faces. She became very good at it in this touching snow painting.
110. Woman at the Beach - Oil, Canvas Board 6x8
Her love of beaches and looking to the horizons inspired her beach paintings.
111. June at the Beach - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Susan never had a child, but all these beach and snow paintings were completed in her last days. She loved children.
113. Girl in Pink Bathing Suit - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Little girls, little boys, I think in Susan’s heart they were her children.
114. Boy on Beach - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Such a beautiful face on this little boy. Susan didn’t think she could paint faces. Susan was now painting faces beautifully.
117. Out for a Swim - Oil, Canvas Board 5x6
In Marquette the beach was our second home. Susan often took pictures there and this was one of them.
118. Tracing Love in the Sand - Oil, Canvas Board 5x6
From our Honeymoon at Cannon Beach on, we always wrote of our love for each other in the sand.
119. Black Rocks Leap of Faith - Oil, Canvas Board 5x6
Susan did not swim well, so she never jumped from the Black Rocks at Presque Isle. She loved watching others do so.
120. Afternoon Near the Mountains - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
I don’t know what inspired her paintings of children at the fence’s series. Maybe just her child-like heart at play.
123. Flowing Colors - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
This truly was inspired by how Susan thought, and how she was facing her cancer. She is dancing in Heaven now.
125. Catch a Butterfly - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
Susan’s love of nature was legendary. All God’s creation thrilled her, even the smallest things.
129. East Sky at Sunset - Oil, Canvas Board 6x8
Sunsets were one of Susan’s favorite things to watch. One day she looked eastward during the sunset and took this picture to paint.
130. Susan at Carmel-by-the-Sea - Oil, Canvas Art Paper Professionally Mounted & Framed 16x10
Susan loved her remote control for her camera. This was a self-portrait of her loving the Pacific beach in California.
131. Woman Washing Clothes - Oil, Canvas Board 8x10
One of her last paintings. Such an angelic face on this Philippine woman washing clothes. I think she really missed being home in her last days.
133. Leaping Ballet Dancer - Oil, Canvas Board 6x8
This personified the heart of Susan. She is now dancing with the Lord.
134. Ballet Dancer - Oil, Canvas Board 6x8
A friend of Susan’s in Seattle was a dancer. She inspired this series.
135. Dancing Ballet Slippers - Oil, Canvas Board 6x8
Susan was a dancer, but did not do ballet. I think she was amazed at how ballet dancers could stand on their toes.
137. Sunset on the Puget Sound - Oil, Canvas Board 12x16
An early painting done in Seattle. Susan took many day trips and thousands of pictures of what she saw. Then she painted.
138. Still Life with Pitcher - Oil, Canvas Board 12x16
Another early painting of still life. Even then her eye saw unremarkable things and painted them remarkably.
139. Flowers - Oil, Canvas Board 12x16
Another painting from her photograph. Susan loved flowers I think, more than anything. They are as delicate as she was.
140. Before the Storm - Oil, Canvas Board 6x8
Susan loved wild waves and storms. Here again is her mystery woman at the beach loving the water.
141. Philippine Countryside - Oil, Canvas 11x14
Susan loved her homeland and painted it as she remembered it. When we were there, I saw her memory of the countryside was spot on.
142. Pacific Coast Study - Oil, Canvas 8x10
When Susan lived in Seattle, she and her friends and sisters would take weekend trips to explore the Pacific Coast. One of her many pictures of the coast turned into a painting.
144. Misty Mountain Sunset - Oil, Canvas 11x14
The Cascade mountains were Susan’s backyard for several years. This was from one of her many weekend trips there.
145. Pacific Shore - Oil, Canvas 8x10
Another remarkable Pacific coast painting from either Oregon or Northern California. This was prior to 2013 when we married and I moved her to Marquette.
146. Northern Lights - Oil, Canvas 11x14
We only got to see the Northern Lights once in Marquette. Susan was totally fascinated by them. Again, a photograph she painted.
148. Tulip Fields - Oil, Canvas 8x10
Susan loved the Tulip farms in Washington. This was one of her favorites.
149. Haystack Rock - Oil, Canvas 8x10
This was Susan’s favorite weekend getaway location in Oregon. We honeymooned there, May 1, 2013.
151. The Shell - Oil, Canvas 8x10
I don’t know much about this except it was the Pacific coast. It is just remarkable. Similar and perhaps the mate to # 167 “Tiny Palm Island”. Both metaphysical type paintings.
152. Autumn Reflections - Oil, Canvas 24x32
Pointillism at it’s best by Susan! Another of her photographs she painted.
153. Daisies at Mt. Hood - Oil, Canvas 18x24
Climbing the Pacific coast mountains was one of Susan’s loves. This is from one of her photographic adventures.
154. Mt. Rainier - Oil, Canvas 16x20
Susan had an eye for beauty. She truly loved God’s Creation. The majesty of which she shared in this painting.
155. The Slope 2 - Oil, Canvas 20x24
Painted from the photograph in painting #156. More of the Cascades in Washington. Yes, she climbed these mountains, took pictures, and then painted them.
156. The Slope - Oil, Canvas 15x30
Another perspective of the Cascades from the same photograph as #155. You can see the clear-cut forests in the hillsides in the background. Remarkable.
157. Happy Meadow - Oil, Canvas 12x24
Fall colors were one of Susan’s love. This was from a hike of hers high up in the mountains. This is truly a joyful psychedelic perspective.
158. Mountain Meadow in Fall - Oil, Canvas 12x24
Another in her mountain, fall color series. Such a beautiful, psychedelic, playful, perspective from a Philippine woman’s eyes.
159. Flowers by the Hillside - Oil, Canvas 12x24
From another springtime hike in the Cascades. She truly loved the mountains.
160. Lake Washington - Oil, Canvas 12x16
Susan’s benefactor lived on Lake Washington in Seattle. There Susan explored and developed her painting skills, letting the paintings dry all over the living room. This was the view out the windows.
161. Coming Home from Market - Oil, Canvas 12x16
This was Susan’s last painting. Originally the women were in a city. I suggested she change the background to the countryside. She loved the idea.
162. Bird of Paradise - Oil, Canvas 14x16
A truly lovely, remarkable painting.
163. Reflections at Sunset - Oil, Canvas 16x20
Lake Washington in Seattle at sunset, through Susan’s eyes.
164. Figure Study - Oil, Canvas 12x16
An early painting in what I call her “Brown” period. A stunning model from her painting class.
165. Woman in Boudoir - Oil, Canvas 12x16
More from her “Brown” period. Perhaps the same model as in painting # 164, “Figure study”.
167. Tiny Palm Island - Oil, Canvas 12x16
Perhaps the mate to #151, “The Shell”. Both metaphysical type paintings.
168. Girl with Flowers Study - Oil, Canvas 11x14
A friend of Susan’s was the inspiration of this series. Susan never got to “finish” this. She intended to, but the cancer didn’t let her. It is magnificent even so.
169. Field of Flowers - Oil, Canvas Board 11x14
From the springtime fields of the Great Northwest that was Susan’s first stop in the United States.
170. Shimmering Sunset on Lake Washington - Oil, Canvas Board 11x14
Outside the living room window of Susan’s home in Seattle. I love the shimmering lights of the homes across the lake.
172. Big Sur - Oil, Canvas Art Paper 20x16
A simply majestic painting of Big Sur done after Susan’s first visit there.
173. Girl in Mirror - Oil, Matted & Framed 12x16
An early painting from Susan’s “Brown” period. The girl in the mirror is amazingly enchanting. In person this painting is very moving.
175. Daisies - Oil, Matted & Framed 12x16
A 3-D painting including the sides. It is surface mounted to show that. Lovely Daisies!
