Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Susan Lyon studied at the Art Institute of Chicago* and earned a degree from the American Academy of Art*. She painted at the Palette and Chisel Club*, a mansion... Read full biography
Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Susan Lyon studied at the Art Institute of Chicago* and earned a degree from the American Academy of Art*. She painted at the Palette and Chisel Club*, a mansion converted into studio space by art students, and there in 1989, met Scott Burdick, whom she married in... Read full biography
Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Susan Lyon studied at the Art Institute of Chicago* and earned a degree from the American Academy of Art*. She painted at the Palette and Chisel Club*, a mansion converted into studio space by art students, and there in 1989, met Scott Burdick, whom she married in 1993. Exhibiting there from age 23, she became the youngest winner of the prestigious Gold Medal for Oil Painting two years in a row. Other exhibition venues have been the Oil Painters of America,... Read full biography
Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Susan Lyon studied at the Art Institute of Chicago* and earned a degree from the American Academy of Art*. She painted at the Palette and Chisel Club*, a mansion converted into studio space by art students, and there in 1989, met Scott Burdick, whom she married in 1993. Exhibiting there from age 23, she became the youngest winner of the prestigious Gold Medal for Oil Painting two years in a row. Other exhibition venues have been the Oil Painters of America, Laguna Plein Air Painters, and the Northwest Rendezvous. She and her husband also have a two-person show each year. "Her initial interest in art was sparked by a television show on Georgia O'Keefe. "I hadn't seen art like that before. Her work touched... Read full biography
Growing up in Oak Park, Illinois, Susan Lyon studied at the Art Institute of Chicago* and earned a degree from the American Academy of Art*. She painted at the Palette and Chisel Club*, a mansion converted into studio space by art students, and there in 1989, met Scott Burdick, whom she married in 1993. Exhibiting there from age 23, she became the youngest winner of the prestigious Gold Medal for Oil Painting two years in a row. Other exhibition venues have been the Oil Painters of America, Laguna Plein Air Painters, and the Northwest Rendezvous. She and her husband also have a two-person show each year. "Her initial interest in art was sparked by a television show on Georgia O'Keefe. "I hadn't seen art like that before. Her work touched me emotionally and seemed so personal -- I saw a television program on her life and that inspired me to take drawin... Read full biography
Susan Lyon - Artist Info
About Susan Lyon: Books
Books & Publications (4)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Western Rendezvous of Art 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Ed. Montana Historical Society
0 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
Western Rendezvous of Art Twentieth Annual (Exhibition catalog)