Suzanne Scheuer
American artist (1898–1984)
Suzanne Scheuer (1898 – 1984) was an American fine artist, best known for her New Deal-era murals. She painted one of the murals in Coit Tower, Newsgathering.
Biography
Suzanne Scheuer was born in San Jose, California on February 11, 1898. Scheuer was of Dutch descent.
She moved to San Francisco, California in 1918. Scheuer studied at the California College of Arts and Crafts (now California College of the Arts) as a fine arts major, and later went back and got a teacher's credential. Around ten years later she went back to school to study mural painting with Ray Boynton at California School of Fine Arts (now called the San Francisco Art Institute).
Scheuer taught art for three years in Los Banos and Salinas public schools. She then toured Europe extensively, where she gained an appreciation for murals.
Pencil sketches
Scheuer created a number of pencil sketches of children playing at the playground in San Francisco's Chinatown.
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