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1874 Portsmouth, New Hampshire - 1959 Concord, New Hampshire. Known for: Child, immigrant and Indian portraits.
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox excelled at painting portraits and figure works of mothers with children. She was also known for pen and ink silhouettes. With the idea that art should... Read full biography
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox excelled at painting portraits and figure works of mothers with children. She was also known for pen and ink silhouettes. With the idea that art should be concerned with social conditions, she painted a series of 32 paintings in 1921 of European... Read full biography
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox excelled at painting portraits and figure works of mothers with children. She was also known for pen and ink silhouettes. With the idea that art should be concerned with social conditions, she painted a series of 32 paintings in 1921 of European immigrants at Ellis Island. These paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York during the International Conference of Eugenics, and later they hung in the Committee Room of the House... Read full biography
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox excelled at painting portraits and figure works of mothers with children. She was also known for pen and ink silhouettes. With the idea that art should be concerned with social conditions, she painted a series of 32 paintings in 1921 of European immigrants at Ellis Island. These paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York during the International Conference of Eugenics, and later they hung in the Committee Room of the House of Representatives. She studied at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia with Howard Pyle and the Cooper Union Art School in New York City with Douglas Volk, and Clifford Grayson, and then studied in Europe from 1906 to 1907. Knox lived primarily in... Read full biography
Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox excelled at painting portraits and figure works of mothers with children. She was also known for pen and ink silhouettes. With the idea that art should be concerned with social conditions, she painted a series of 32 paintings in 1921 of European immigrants at Ellis Island. These paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York during the International Conference of Eugenics, and later they hung in the Committee Room of the House of Representatives. She studied at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia with Howard Pyle and the Cooper Union Art School in New York City with Douglas Volk, and Clifford Grayson, and then studied in Europe from 1906 to 1907. Knox lived primarily in New York City but summered in York Harbor, Maine where she and her mother paid for their lodging with their paintings. She also t... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Easel Painting
- •Illustration, Illustrator
- •Plein Aire Painting, Plein-Air
- •Silhouettist
Art Media
Art Style
- •Impressionism Before 1940
Art Subject
- •Children, Child Figure, Genre, Portrait
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Desert Landscape
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Gardens, Garden Scenes
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Silhouettes, Silhouette Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Arizona Before 1945
- •Europe
- •Hopi Reservation, Arizona
- •Mexico and/or Central America
- •New Mexico Before 1940
- •Ogunquit, Maine
- •White Mountains, New Hampshire
Art Association
- •American Artists Professional League
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors
- •National Associaton of Women Painters & Sculptors
- •North Shore Art Association, Gloucester-
- •Ogunquit Art Association
- •Pen and Brush Club, New York
- •Salons of America
- •Society of Independent Artists-
Art Teacher
- •Douglas Volk
- •Howard Pyle
Art School
- •Cooper Union Art School, Cooper School of Design, Student
- •Drexel Institute of Technology, Student
- •Woodbury Ogunquit Summer School, Student
Chronology
- •Early 20th Century Before 1950
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Art Collection
- •Collection of Fran and Ed Elliott, Arizona Women Artists
- •Louise and Alan Sellars Collection
Added Description
- •Genre Specialty
- •Portrait Specialty
Artist Colony
- •Ogunquit Artist Colony, Maine
Notable Commercial Gallery Representation, Pre 21s
- •Vose Galleries, Boston
Exhibition of Art Association
- •Allied Artists of America
- •American Artists Professional League-
- •National Association of Women Artists, Painters and Sculptors)
- •North Shore Art Association, Gloucester
- •Ogunquit Art Association-
- •Salons of America-
- •Society of Independent Artists--
Exhibition of Museum
- •Art Institute of Chicago
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
Exhibition By An Art School
- •The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts