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. ''Winged Shadow, Waimea Canyon, Kauai'', in the collection of the

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demonstrates her modernist approach to barren landscapes. The Art Institute of Chicago, the

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(Cody, Wyoming), the

, the

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(Hanover, New Hampshire), the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the

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(New York City), and the Smithsonian American Art Museum are among the public collections holding works by Susan Shatter.

Biography

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

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, she received a BFA from Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York) in 1965 and earned an MFA from

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in 1972. In 2005, she was elected the 32nd president of the

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, of which she had been a member since 1995.ArtDaily.com
/ref> For many years she taught

watercolor painting Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (British English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin ''aqua'' "water"), is a painting method”Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to ...

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and

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. Shatter also served on the Skowhegan School's Board of Governors from 1978, and spent time teaching at Brooklyn College, Hunter College, SUNY Purchase, and the

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. 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Shatter, Susan Louise 1943 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American painters Modern painters American contemporary painters 20th-century American women artists Artists from New York (state) Pratt Institute alumni Boston University alumni Brooklyn College faculty 21st-century American women American women painters Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture alumni