Susan Louise Shatter

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Winged Shadow, Waimea Canyon, Kauai by Susan Louise Shatter, 1986, Honolulu Museum of Art

Susan Louise Shatter (1943–2011) was an American landscape painter.

Shatter painted landscapes in both oil and watercolor, preferring the earth tones of volcanic canyons or rocky coastlines rather than the green pastoral settings more traditionally associated with the genre.

National Academy Museum and School (New York City), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding works by Susan Shatter.[2]

Biography

Born in New York to Aubrey and Florence (Breines) Shatter, after studying at the

The Art Students League of New York
.

Shatter also served on the Skowhegan School's Board of Governors from 1978, and spent time teaching at

. She was married to Paul Brown and they had one child, Scott Brown Shatter.

Publications

  • Hurwitz, Lord, "Contemporary Master: Susan Shatter" in American Artist, December, 1990
  • Lee, Margaret Juhae, Into the Sea: Painter Susan Shatter Finds Her Way Back to Nature, MAMM Magazine, October/November, 1998
  • Shatter, Susan, An Approach to Landscape, Boston Public Library, 1972
  • Shatter, Susan, Susan Shatter: Recent Work, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 2001

References