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Born 1946 New Milford, Connecticut. Known for: Impressionist landscape painting.
Susan Grisell was born in New Milford, CT in 1946. She grew up in her Grandparent's home in Gaylorsville, CT with a sister and a brother. Her father was a WWII veteran. Susan attended school in New... Read full biography
Susan Grisell was born in New Milford, CT in 1946. She grew up in her Grandparent's home in Gaylorsville, CT with a sister and a brother. Her father was a WWII veteran. Susan attended school in New Milford, graduating in 1964 and never left pastoral Litchfield County, western Connecticut along the... Read full biography
Susan Grisell was born in New Milford, CT in 1946. She grew up in her Grandparent's home in Gaylorsville, CT with a sister and a brother. Her father was a WWII veteran. Susan attended school in New Milford, graduating in 1964 and never left pastoral Litchfield County, western Connecticut along the Housatonic River, where she found constant inspiration in the surrounding natural beauty. Her only family connection to art is a great-uncle (Zimmerman), a sculptor in Germany, who fell to his death... Read full biography
Susan Grisell was born in New Milford, CT in 1946. She grew up in her Grandparent's home in Gaylorsville, CT with a sister and a brother. Her father was a WWII veteran. Susan attended school in New Milford, graduating in 1964 and never left pastoral Litchfield County, western Connecticut along the Housatonic River, where she found constant inspiration in the surrounding natural beauty. Her only family connection to art is a great-uncle (Zimmerman), a sculptor in Germany, who fell to his death from a scaffold while working on a church, and a distant cousinship to William Merritt Chase. At age 13, she declared "I would become an artist.". Much of her artistic influence came from her friend and colleague, the impressionist Bernard Lennon,... Read full biography
Susan Grisell was born in New Milford, CT in 1946. She grew up in her Grandparent's home in Gaylorsville, CT with a sister and a brother. Her father was a WWII veteran. Susan attended school in New Milford, graduating in 1964 and never left pastoral Litchfield County, western Connecticut along the Housatonic River, where she found constant inspiration in the surrounding natural beauty. Her only family connection to art is a great-uncle (Zimmerman), a sculptor in Germany, who fell to his death from a scaffold while working on a church, and a distant cousinship to William Merritt Chase. At age 13, she declared "I would become an artist.". Much of her artistic influence came from her friend and colleague, the impressionist Bernard Lennon, with whom she studied until his death in 1992. She recalls "In my teens I watched him paint - just watched - but that was how I started to l... Read full biography
Susan Grisell - Artist Info
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Keywords (16)
Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Painting, Fine Art
Art Media
Art Subject
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Europe
- •Mystic, Connecticut
Art Teacher
- •Bernard Lennon
Chronology
- •Early 21st Century
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Figure Specialty