Susan B. Durkee
Everett Raymond Kinstler, April 2001
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The artist with
her award winning portrait of "Jim Thorpe, The Greatest
Athlete of the 20th Century"
Collection of Pro Football Hall of Fame
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An award-winning artist, Susan works out of her spacious
West Redding, Connecticut studio, The
Lobster Pot, so named by Mark
Twain who owned the property at the turn of the century.
A true New Englander, Susan is a direct descendants of some
of the earliest families that settled in America in the mid-1600's.
Susan has made art a lifelong commitment. To her, each portrait
is an opportunity to express the unique spirit of each individual
character. She believes a portrait is a cherished heirloom
to be shared and enjoyed generation after generation.
Susan takes pride in being primarily self trained. She has
painted since she was a small child and believes that both
her unrelenting determination and intense studies of the Old
Masters, particularly Valesquez and John Singer Sargent, have
brought her the success she now enjoys.
Susan graduated from Greens Farms Academy, attended one year
at the School of Fine Arts at Boston University, and received
a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Vermont.
Her work is displayed in private and Institutional collections
throughout the country and she has been featured on 4 Cable
Television Shows, appeared in Fairfield Country Times
magazine, The Artist Magazine, Fine Art Connoiseur,
MSNBC Connecticut News, Ridgefield Magazine, Morris
Media, The News Times, Signature Magazine, The
Johns Hopkins Odyssey magazine, The
Weston Magazine Group and National Geographic.
Susan has won awards and has participated in many prestigious
Juried National Art Shows including: The Oil Painters of America,
American Women Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club,
Connecticut Portrait Society, National Art Museum of Sport
and Salmagundi Club.
Salmagundi Club of New York
Portrait Society of America
Artist Fellowship of New York
Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists
Oil Painters of America
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Society of Daughters of Holland Dames
Mrs. Ban, the wife of the Secretary
General of the United Nations, visiting the artist in
her studio for the final
touches on her portrait
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Artist Susan Boone Durkee with the
Honorable Sonia Sotomayor,
United States Supreme Court Justice at the unveiling of
her official
portrait at the Southern District Court of New York.jpg |
Hall of Fame Yankee Baseball Legend,
Mariano Rivera with the Artist, in front of his oil portrait.
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