Connecticut Portrait Artist, Portrait Painter, Susan Durkee

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"The Art of portraiture is my life long commitment. I see each new portrait commission as an opportunity to record for posterity the unique spirit of an individual, not only for the family, but for generations to come. A portrait is a timeless expression of love."
—Susan B. Durkee

"I have known Susan for over ten years, and she is a person of great quality. Susan is a professional painter, and is a fine portraitist as well as a painter of landscapes"
—Everett Raymond Kinstler, April 2001

Brant Point, Nantucket
Giclee available

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.

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 taught. 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 collections throughout the East and she has recently been featured on Three Cable Television Shows, appeared in Fairfield Country Times magazine, The Artist Magazine, MSNBC Connecticut News, The News Times, Signature magazine as well as the Portrait Artist in the Spring 2004 National Geographic article on Greenwich, Connecticut.

Anna
New York, New York
Oil on Canvas, 42 x 36

Susan specializes in traditional grand manner style portraiture. She has been commissioned to paint individual, civic, and corporate portraits. Among her corporate clients are U.S. Tobacco, the Cancer Research Institute, and Baylor University Medical Center.

Although her concentration is focused mainly on formal portraiture, Susan has also been successful in painting seascapes, landscapes, and still lifes.

Current Memberships include:

- Salmagundi Club of New York
- American Society of Portrait Artists
- Stroke of Genius
- Artist Fellowship of New York
- Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists
- Colonial Dames of America, for the State of Connecticut

-Oil Painters of America
- Allied Artists

Represented by:
Portraits North

Paintings Purchased of Private Collections & Commissions
Only Partial list shown

Corporate & Institutional Collections

Cancer Research Institute		Mark Twain Library, Redding, Ct.
Westley Wolcott Inc, NY.		Mark Twain House, Hartford, Ct.
Vesco Inc. Redding, Ct.		Wellesley College, MA.
Baylor University Medical Hospital, TX.		Southern Methodist University, TX
UST Inc. Stamford, Ct.		New Pond Farm Ed.Ctr. Redding. Ct.
Christ Episcopal Church, Redding, Ct.		Johns Hopkins University

Private Collections & Commissions

Dischner Family-Greenwich, Ct		Yurman Family, Redding, Ct
Van Vliet Family, Holland		Ferguson Family, Manchester, Vt
Muhlfeld Family, Newtown, Ct		Dudley Family, Ridgefield, Ct
Fisher Family Collection, Dallas, Tx		Stone Family, Redding, Ct
Green Family, Westport, Ct		Lane Family, Stamford, Ct
Landegger Family Collection, Ridgefield, Ct		Brame Familly, Redding, Ct.
Johnson Family Collection, Greenwich, Ct		Pruyne Family, Stamford, Ct.
Hunt Collection, Westport, Ct		Kolfe Family, Redding, Ct
Hughes/Meehl Collection, Redding, Ct		LaRosa Family, California
Caterine Collection, Boca Raton, Fl		Garavel Collection, Redding, Ct
Shinall Family, Redding, Ct		Kiem Family , NYC/Redding, Ct
Wimberly Family, Bridgewater, Ct		Hoyt Collection, Beverly Farms, MA
Watt Family, South Carolina		Kelley Family, Florida
Staudenmier Collection, NYC		Dr. Angeloni Family, Seattle, WA
Lopes Family Collection, Redding, Ct		Morris Family, Ridgefield, Ct
Schwab Family, Greenwich, Ct		Halpern Family, Greenwich, Ct
Britt Family Collection, Westport, Ct		Ryder Family, Redding, Ct
Urquhart Family, Redding, Ct		Cook Family Collection, Redding, Ct
Rolfe Family Collection, Scarsdale, NY		Cozens Family, Maine
Fritz Beshar, NY		Lynn Pirozzoli, Black Horse Inn
Parks Collection, Unionville, VA		O'Keeffe Family, Ridgefield, Ct
Ughetta Family, New Canaan, Ct		Shellenberger Collection, Boston, MA
Araya Family, Redding, Ct		Kelley Family, Ridgefield, Ct

Original Paintings For Sale

Mark Twain Centennial Collection