Susanne Suba

1913 - 2012

Susanne Suba emigrated to the United States from Hungary after World War 1. She attended Friends School in Brooklyn and majored in illustration at Pratt Institute. She moved to Chicago to begin illustrating books, many written by her husband Russell McCracken. Her first illustrated book was chosen for the AIGA Fifty Books of the Year. Her illustration work has been exhibited in the Boston Museum, the Art Director's Club, Chicago, the Art Director's Club, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Brooklyn Museum and other smaller galleries. Her illustrated books include The Elegant Elephant, This Is On Me, Spots by Suba, The Lure of Mr. Lucas, Life Without Principle and Henry David Thoreau. She was a regular contributor to Publisher's Weekly, Print Magazine and A-D magazine.