Magda Salvesen, after running the Jon Schueler Estate as its curator since Jon Schueler’s death in 1992, became the executive director of the Jon Schueler Foundation in 2023. She has an MA from the University of St Andrews, Scotland and the Courtauld Institute, London. Her publications include Artists' Estates: Reputations in Trust, Rutgers University Press, 2005, republished 2021; The Sound of Sleat: A Painter's Life by Jon Schueler, Picador USA, 1999, republished 2023, both co-edited with Diane Cousineau; and Exploring Gardens and Green Spaces: From Connecticut to the Delaware Valley, W. W. Norton, 2011. She taught at various colleges in the New York area and at NYU in the art history department from 2011 until 2021.  She lives in New York City working on the Schueler archives and managing the paintings.