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Susanna W. Wilson ( Coggeshall)

She was a surrealist artist who contributed automatic artworks as well as studied painting and sculpture.

Surrealist artist whom contributed to the surrealist movement and created automatic artworks..studied painting as well as sculpture.

Life and Work

Susanna was born in New York on December 30, 1916. Susanna attended Bryn Mawr as an art History major in 1938. While attending she met artist David Hare, whom she later Married. Both David and Susanna were very interested in the surrealism and soon began attending gatherings with other surrealist artists In New York at Larre French restaurant on 56th Street and at Andre Breton's Greenwich Village apartment. Susanna and many other Surrealist female artists attended an all-women’s Art show at Art of This Century. Susanna also assisted Marcel Duchamp in unwinding five miles of string to create the complex network of webbing for the opening of the International Surrealist Exhibition in New York in 1942. Susy later studied painting with Jack Tworkov, and helped to run a New York dress shop with Ann Clark Matta. Susanna and David later divorced in 1945.Susanna remarried to Calvert Coggeshall, an abstract expressionist artist, and moved to Maine where she studied Brancusi’s Sculptures. Susanna passed away in Maine in April 24, 2003 at the age of 86.