Painting and Sculpture

Hattie Saussy

Hattie Saussy (1890 – 1978) was a painter from Savannah, Georgia. In her youth, she studied at the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she learned about Impressionist art. She later studied for a year at Mary Baldwin Seminary, the National Academy of Design Antique School, and the New York School of Fine and Applied Art. Saussy's work includes landscapes and portraiture. It can be found in several Southeastern museums such as the Columbus Museum, the High Museum of Art, the Telfair Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Spartanburg Art Museum. Throughout her life, Saussy comprised 38 original works of art that were selected from 19 private and institutional collections throughout the United States. Saussy, an American painter, whose work is characterized by the integration of Impressionist elements within a Realist framework, formulating her own unique painting aesthetic. This approach combined traditional composition with stylistic techniques that diverged from strict Realism, resulting in a distinct aesthetic within American painting.

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• ▸Barbizon School
• ▸Kato Phournos tholos
• ▸Fox in the Snow

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