Biography
Susan Green is a native New Yorker who creates works of fine
art that range from portraits and watercolor paintings of flowers to Jewish
Celebratory Illuminations. Her fine art work has been seen at the Hoorn-Ashby
Gallery in New York and Nantucket, the Keyes Gallery in Missouri and at the
Limner Gallery in New York among others and, of course, are in private collections,
including that of Jesse McNab, curator of European and Decorative Arts at
the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. Her fabric painting has been featured
in House and Garden and has been seen in many
other dwelling magazines. Her illuminations, including kettubot, are in private
collections. She illustrated Caleb Gattagno’s White
Canary, and she created over a hundred drawings from “life”
which were used in her own book, Gentle Gorilla; the
Story of Patty Cake, an adult non-fiction concerning the familial relationships
of a small troop of gorillas at the Central Park Zoo in the early 1970’s.
