Nude bathing. oil.
According to Spartanburg architect Martin Meek, this early work by Suitt – a rare painting of a nude – so scandalized her mother that she refused to allow it in their home.
When Frank Coleman saw the work, he hailed the work as “the best thing she’d ever produced,” and the two artists worked out a trade, sparing both the painting (which had been facing certain destruction) and her mother’s modest sensibilities.
"Mountains"
This painting was exhibited in Lancaster, S. C. at the Springs Art Contest in 1960
Mary Ellen Suitt '57 • Charter Member
Active in Guild 1957-present
EDUCATION:
graduate of the Ringling School of Art
graduate of Stratford College
studied at the See-Celo School of Art in Burnsville, N. C. with Frank Herring and Robert Miller. (1961)
Studied Under Irma Cook
ART RELATED :
In business life, she was a cartogrphic draftsman
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