Suba, Susanne, 1913-

Susanne Suba was born in 1913 in Budapest, Hungary. She began studying art with her father, Miklos, an architect and painter. Sometime between 1919 and 1922 she and her mother May, a pianist originally from Brooklyn, moved to the United States. Her father joined the family later. They settled in Brooklyn, where Suba attended the Brooklyn Friends School and the Pratt Institute. Frank Henahan of Aldus Associates gave her her first commission, for four illustrations to The Colophon Part XX. The first book she fully illustrated was Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau, which was chosen as one of the American Institute of Graphic Arts Fifty Books of the Year in 1937. Other notable books which Suba illustrated include The Cat (1936) by Colette , The Coat-Hanger Christmas Tree (1973) by Eleanor Estes, Morning Faces: A Book of Children and Parents (1949) by John Mason Brown, and Sonny-Boy Sim (1948) by Elizabeth Whitemore Baker. She also illustrated a number of books by her husband, Russell McCracken. These included The Elegant Elephant (1944), The Mystery of Carmen the Cow (1946), and The Gentle Giraffe (1945). She both wrote and illustrated one book, My Paintbook (1936). In addition to illustrating books, she also designed book jackets for various publishers and drew caricatures for The New Yorker. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Brooklyn Museum.

Hungarian artist and illustrator who studied at the Pratt Institute in New York.

Painter, illustrator; New York, N.Y.

Susanne Suba was born in Budapest, Hungary and completed her education at the Pratt Institute. She is a (self-illustrated) author, and has illustrated books by others, as well.