Susan Boone Durkee  »  Redding, CT
Susan Boone Durkee  »  New York, NY
Susan Boone Durkee  »  Boston, MA
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Founder Award, 2010, National Art Museum of Sport

Jim Thorpe
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Canton Ohio


Susan Boone Durkee
Redding, CT & New York, NY & Boston, MA
Fee range: $5,000-$40,000

susan@susandurkee.com
203-938-2760
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About the Artist

Susan Boone Durkee has painted  many luminaries as Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, former United States Secretary of Commerce Malcolm Baldrige, The Governor of South Dakota, Congressman Collins of Texas, Gloria Steinem for the M.S. Foundation, the CEO of UST, the CEO of Phillips Medical, the President of Bouvier Insurance, and the President of Standard Oil of Connecticut, besides many Heads of prestigious Preparatory  Schools such as: Hotchkiss, Emma Willard and Choate.

An award-winning artist, Susan works out of her spacious West Redding, Connecticut studio, The Lobster Pot, so named by Mark Twain who owned the property at the turn of the century. A true New Englander, Susan is a direct descendants of some of the earliest families that settled in America in the mid-1600's.

Susan has made art a lifelong commitment. To her, each portrait is an opportunity to express the unique spirit of each individual character. She believes a portrait is a cherished legacy to be shared and honored generation after generation.

Her work is displayed in private and Institutional collections throughout the country and she has been featured on 4 Cable Television Shows, appeared in Fairfield Country Times magazine, The Artist Magazine, Fine Art Connoisseur, American Art Magazine, MSNBC Connecticut News, Ridgefield Magazine, Morris Media, The News Times, Signature Magazine, The Johns Hopkins Odyssey magazine, The Weston Magazine Group and National Geographic.

Susan has won awards and has participated in many prestigious Juried National Art Shows including: The Oil Painters of America, American Women Artists, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, Connecticut Portrait Society, National Art Museum of Sport and Salmagundi Club.



Memberships
Salmagundi Club of New York
Portrait Society of America
Artist Fellowship of New York
Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists
Oil Painters of America
Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club
Society of Daughters of Holland Dames




Portrait Fees

Please contact the artist at susan@susandurkee.com for pricing.



Additional portraits

James Smith Former CEO and President of Webster Bank
Chris Ulbrich CEO Ulbrich Steel and Special Metals, New Haven Ct.
General Omar Nelson Bradley, 5 Star General 
 Commander of the Twelfth Army Group 
 First Chairman of the U.S. Joint  Chiefs of Staff
The Honorable Robert J. Lynn, Chief Justice, New Hampshire Supreme Court
The Honorable Dennis Daugaard
32nd Governor of South Dakota
The Honorable Dannel Patrick Malloy sketch
88th Governor of Connecticut
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General David L. Goldfein
Chief of Staff
United States Air Force
Walter Crain
The Hotchkiss School
Lakeville, Connecticut
Dr. Susan R. Groesbeck
Former Head, Emma Willard School
Troy, New York
Dr. Kevin Hicks, Head
The Hotchkiss School
Lakeville, Connecticut
Trudy Hall, Head
Emma Willard School
Troy, New York
Peter O’Neill, Former Headmaster
Hotchkiss School
Lakeville, Connecticut
Malcolm Baldrige
Former U.S. Secretary of Commerce
The Malcolm Baldrige School of Business
Post University, Waterbury, Connecticut
 
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Paul Newman, Actor
Lucille Lortel
American actress, artistic director and producer
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Carr P. Collins
Fisher / Collins Family Collection
Dallas, Texas
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Wesltey Wolcott, Founder
Westley Wolcott Inc.
New York, New York
Roy Friedman, President
Standard Oil of Connecticut
Bridgeport, Connecticut
Robert Bouvier, President
Bouvier Inurance
West Hartford, Connecticut
Gloria Steinem, American feminist, journalist, and social & political activist
Collection MS Foundation
New York, New York
Vincent A. Gierer Jr.
Chairman, UST Inc.
Greenwich, Connecticut
 
Dominick Protomastro
Former President & CEO
Philips Medical, New York, New York
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Jean Clemens
Mark Twain's Youngest Daughter
Mark Twain Library
West Redding, Connecticut
Mark Twain
 
Mark Twain
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
The Honorable John Paul Stevens
Former Supreme Court Justice
Helen Coley Nauts, Founder
Cancer Research Institute
New York, New York
Dorothy Collins Torbert
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
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Jim Thorpe
 
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Congressman James M. Collins
Baylor University Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Mrs. Ban Soon-taek
Wife of U.N. Sect'y-Gen'l Ban Ki-moon
Ban Family Collection
 New York, New York
Study for portrait of President Ronald Reagan
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Mariano Rivera
Jim Thorpe
Pro Football Hall of Fame
Canton Ohio
 
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