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Born 1969 Oak Park, Illinois. Known for: Genre and portrait painting.
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
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
Art Media
Art Style
- •Realism/Semi Impressionism
Art Subject
- •Animals, Mammals
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Interior Scenes
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •China
- •Europe
- •Greece
- •India and/or Burma
- •Japan
- •Mexico and/or Central America
Art Association
- •America China Oil Painting Artists League
- •Northwest Rendezvous Group-
- •Oil Painters of America
- •Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago
Art School
- •Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine art, Chicago
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Animal Specialty
- •Figure Specialty
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Laguna Plein Air Painters Association-
- •Northwest Rendezvous Group
- •Oil Painters of America-
- •Palette & Chisel Club, Chicago-
- •Western Rendezvous of Art
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Masters of the American West, Autry Center