Susan Knox displayed an ability for painting at a very early age. She received her formal art education at the Drexel Institute in Philadelphia and the Cooper Union Art School in New York under Howard Pyle, Douglas Volk and Clifford Grayson. She continued her studies in Europe working in Spain, Italy, Paris and London.

Living in New York City, with a summer studio in York Harbor, Maine, she traveled to many areas of the United States and Mexico to paint. She painted a series of European immigrants at Ellis Island which were exhibited in the United States Capitol during the consideration of an important immigration bill.

Her great love was the paintings of mothers and their children, one writer once wrote, "Her special attention to the sitters' character, or the spiritual, was a trademark of her work.

She exhibited actively from ca. 1910-1943 throughout the United States and in Mexico with many solo shows at a variety of museums and galleries.

Listed:
American Art Annual, v.10, 20, and 30
Earle, p. 178-9
Mantle Fieldings
Samuels Encyclopedia of Artists of The American West
Thieme- Becker
Who was Who in American Art, v. 1-8
Dictionary of Women Artists, by Chris Petteys

Biography courtesy of Roughton Galleries, www.antiquesandfineart.com/roughton