Susan Seddon Boulet

by Babcock, Michael; Boulet, Susan Seddon

• ISBN13: 9780764910302
• ISBN10: 0764910302
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2016-01-15
• Publisher: Pomegranate

Summary

Susan Seddon Boulet lived life in search of the magnificent. As a child growing up on a Brazilian farm, she developed a deep affection for animals and loved making colorful sketches of them. From these formative experiences, she found her destiny, one that deeply affected people all over the world. This beautiful, moving retrospective by Michael Babcock recounts Susan Boulet's artistic development and celebrates her extraordinary personal journey. It includes more than two hundred reproductions of her unique and wondrous paintings, some never before published, along with photographs chronicling the events of her life from Brazil to California.

Author Biography

A Longtime Resident of the San Francisco Bay Area and a graduate of Stanford University, Michael Babock (American, b. 1950) lives and writes in Oakland, California

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Angeles Arrien
Preface	viii
Acknowledgments	xi
Roots: Childhood and teen years, 1941 to 1958	1	(18)
Parents
Birth and Early Childhood
A Crisis of Withdrawal
School in Switzerland Development of Her Art
Pioneering in Brazil
A Young Woman in Brazil, 1958 to 1967	19	(16)
Life in Sao Paulo
Art in Sao Paulo
A Trip to California
An Artist Emerges, 1967 to 1980	35	(68)
Beginning Life in the United States
An Established Style
Susan's Method of Work
Larry's Role Friendships and Stature Expand
The Jungian World
Career Development in the Mid-Seventies
Two Deaths
Susan's Career Matures, 1980 to 1989	103	(78)
Changes
Her Art as Self Work
Professional Milestones
Breast Cancer
The Final Years, 1989 to 1997	181	(62)
Personal Trials and Growth
Continuing Work
How Susan Worked
Successes in the Nineties Life in the Later Nineties
Last Works
Summing Up
Appendix 1: The Anais Nin Introduction	243	(1)
Appendix 2: Selected List of Published Works	244	(2)
The Susan Seddon Boulet Fellowship	246	(1)
Notes	247	(3)
List of Artworks	250