"Wheat Workers"

1940

1918-1974

Born in St. Louis, MO. Suzanne Martyl was a student of the Art Institute of Chicago under the well known WPA artist Arnold Blanch and she later studied in the Provincetown Art Community under Charles Hawthorne at the Hawthorne School of Art. She was a WPA artist and specialized in Abstract watercolors and large scale public murals of which she worked with fellow Chicago WPA artist Mildred Waltrip in designing and painting.