Susanne Suba
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Susanne Suba (1913–2012) was a Hungarian-born watercolorist and illustrator, active in the United States.
Early life
Suba was born Zsuzsanna Suba in Budapest, Hungary, on December 13, 1913,[https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-994V-Q29M?i=275 Budapest 2nd district birth register 403/1913.]{{cite web |title=Suba Zsuzsa |url=https://resolver.pim.hu/auth/PIM70521 |website=PLM Namespace |access-date=January 30, 2023}} to May Edwards Suba, a pianist of Brooklyn, New York and Miklos Suba, an architect and artist.{{cite web |title=Suba, Susanne, 1913–2012 |url=https://snaccooperative.org/ark:/99166/w6dj6c9x |publisher=SNAC Cooperative |access-date=January 30, 2023}} She drew from an early age, sitting beside her father as he worked.{{cite web |title=Susanne Suba |url=https://www.carlemuseum.org/explore-art/collections/featured-artists/susanne-suba |publisher=Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art |access-date=January 30, 2023 }}
Some time in the early 1920s her family emigrated and settled in Brooklyn, New York; her father arrived in 1924, but her drawings show Suba herself was already there in 1922.
She was educated at Brooklyn Friends School and the Pratt Institute.
== Career ==
She worked as a freelance illustrator and commercial artist. As such, she painted covers and spot illustrations for The New Yorker from the 1930s onwards. A collection of these were published as Spots by Suba in 1944.{{cite book |last1=Suba |first1=Susanne |title=Spots by Suba |date=1944 |publisher=E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. |location=New York}}
She illustrated books, including an edition Henry David Thoreau’s Life Without Principle (her first book illustration), and over 25 children's books, some by her husband. She also wrote and illustrated books in her own name.
She had exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Art Directors Club of New York and the Chicago equivalent, the Museum of Modern Art New York, Brooklyn Museum and several others.{{cite web |title=de Grummond Children's Literature Collection |url=https://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG0954.htmlhttps://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/degrum/public_html/html/research/findaids/DG0954.html |publisher=University of Southern Mississippi |access-date=January 30, 2023}}
Personal life
Suba married Russell McCracken, a writer and editor. They lived in Chicago.
Legacy
Suba's papers for the years 1939–1993 are held by the Smithsonian Institution's Archives of American Art.{{cite web |title=Susanne Suba papers, 1939–1993 |url=https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/susanne-suba-papers-6510 |website=Archives of American Art |access-date=January 30, 2023 }} Additional papers, covering 1972–1976, are in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art has almost 600 of her works, which she bequeathed to the museum. Her pen and ink drawing Woman Reading (circa 1940–1964) is held by the Art Institute of Chicago.{{cite web |title=Susanne Suba |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/42424/susanne-suba |publisher=The Art Institute of Chicago |access-date=January 30, 2023 }}
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Category:Artists from Budapest
Category:Hungarian emigrants to the United States
Category:American illustrators
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:American watercolorists
Category:Brooklyn Friends School alumni
Category:Pratt Institute alumni
Category:20th-century Hungarian women artists