Susan Kunce Ericson

Susan Kunce Ericson was born on May 3, 1927, in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Kirkwood, Missouri. She studied art at the Washington University School of Fine Arts, where she received a Scholastic Arts Magazine Scholarship in 1944 and graduated with a bachelor's of fine arts degree in 1948. While there, she studied with Max Beckmann and Philip Guston. She also studied at the University of Illinois, the Brooklyn Museum School, Boston University, and Institute Allende in Mexico.

Ericson worked as a freelance commercial illustrator for the National Education Association, in Washington, D.C., and at several other employers from 1948-1960.

As an artist, she worked primarily in acrylics and oils. She was the owner of StudioFive in Ipswich, Massachusetts, beginning in 1960 until her retirement in 1989, and did commercial artwork, landscapes and portraits. She completed a mural of Christ for the Rock Hill Presbyterian Church in Rock Hill, Missouri, outside of St. Louis. 

In 1989, Ericson retired to West Bolton, Vermont, where she continued to make art. She died in Chester, Vermont, on October 4, 2003.