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Birth
1874 (Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
Death
1959 (Concord, New Hampshire)
Lived/Active
New York/Maine
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child, immigrant and Indian portraits
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Born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox excelled at painting portraits and figure works of mothers with children. She was also known for pen and ink silhouettes.
With the idea that art should be concerned with social conditions, she painted a series of 32 paintings in 1921 of European immigrants at Ellis Island. These paintings were exhibited at the Museum of Natural History in New York during the International Conference of Eugenics, and later they hung in the Committee Room of th (showing 500 of 1501 characters). |
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