About Hattie Saussy

  • Biography

    The following biography has been provided January 2004 by Karen Towers Klacsmann, Adjunct Assistant Curator for Research, Morris Museum of Art, Augusta, Georgia.

    Hattie Saussy was born on March 17, 1890, in Savannah, Georgia, to Rachel Louise (Shivers) and Joachim Radcliffe Saussy III. Her immediate family included a sister who died at the age of two and a younger brother, Rad, who died in 1915 at the age of twenty-three. Hattie's native city exposed her to art and artistic training at an early age, and she pursued it unhindered by her blindness in one eye, the result of a childhood accident.

    In 1901, when Hattie was in the fifth grade, art instruction was added to the public school curriculum,...

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