Art writer Susan Vreeland passes away at age 71

Susan Vreeland, an American writer who had written novels featuring some of history’s greatest artists, passed away Aug. 23 in San Diego at age 71 following heart surgery. The news was not released until yesterday.

Born in Racine, Wisconsin, on January 20, 1946, Susan Vreeland spent a lifetime in the arts: as a child she often attended the library with her father, a place where she was introduced to the poems of Robert Louis Stevenson and the short stories of Guy de Maupassant. Thanks to her mother, she developed a love of visual art; when she was twelve she moved to San Diego with her family, where she met her neighbor who owned many books on art; she attended the Art Institute of Chicago; and, on a trip to Paris, it was a visit to the Louvre museum that blossomed her vocation as an art writer.

The novel that established her was The Girl in Blue, a novel centered on a work by Jan Vermeer, published in 1999, the same year that Tracy Chevalier’s The Girl with the Pearl Earring, which was also about Vermeer, was published.

Another celebrated novel of note is The Passion of Artemisia, centered on the artist Artemisia Gentileschi.

Art writer Susan Vreeland passes away at age 71

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