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From April 7 through May 7, 2010 we featured
the artwork of Portrait
Artist Susan Boone Durkee:
Susan’s exhibit, featured over 30 original,
classic works including still lifes, landscapes, portraits
and equestrian paintings.
About Susan B. Durkee
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 graduated from Greens
Farms Academy, attended one year at the School of Fine
Arts at Boston University, received a Bachelor of Arts
from the University of Vermont.
Her work is displayed in private collections
throughout the Country. Susan has been featured on four
Cable Television Shows, appeared in Fairfield Country
Times, The Artist Magazine, MSNBC Connecticut News,
The News Times, Signature magazine, Ridgefield Magazine,
as well as the featured portrait artist in the Spring
2004 National Geographic article on Greenwich, Connecticut.
Susan specializes in traditional classic
style portraiture. Since 1978, she has been commissioned
to paint individual, civic, and corporate portraits.
Among her corporate clients are U.S. Tobacco, the Cancer
Research Institute, Wellesley College, the Mark Twain
House, Hartford, Connecticut and Baylor University Medical
Center. Memberships include: American Society Portrait
Artists, Connecticut Society Portrait Artists, Salmagundi
Club, New York, Artists Fellowship, New York, and Stroke
of Genius, Oil Painters of America, Colonial Dames of
America, State of Connecticut.
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