Full Artist Bio
Susan Read Cronin was educated at The Madeira School in McLean, VA, and received a BA from Williams College, in Williamstown, MA, where she developed her passion for art and design. Cronin studied in the early 1990’s with renowned sculptors Jane B. Armstrong and Walter Matia. Having spent most of her artsitic career in Vermont, she has recently relocated to Santa Barbara, California.
Her show, entitled Fables, Foibles and Fairytales, has traveled to eighteen museums around the country. She has had solo exhibitions of her work at the Harrison Gallery in Williamstown, MA, The Southern Vermont Arts Center in Manchester, VT, The Carving Studio & Sculpture Center in West Rutland, VT, The Williams Club in New York City, Visions West Galleries in Denver, CO, Artisan Designs & Gallery 2 in Brattleboro, VT and Tilting at Windmills Gallery, located in Manchester, VT.
Her work has also been featured at the prestigious Copley Society of Boston, where she is a Copley Artist member, and in group shows at the National Sculpture Society based in New York City, as well as at Hunter Kirkland Contemporary in Santa Fe.
Susan Read Cronin’s bronzes are held in numerous private and public collections including The Erie Art Museum, Erie, Pennsylvania, Southern Vermont Arts Center, Manchester, Vermont, The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia, The Naples Beach Hotel and Golf Club, located in Naples, Florida, and The Williamstown Youth Center in Williamstown, Massachusetts. One of her 6′ elephants balancing on a wheel was installed in the fall of 2013 at Johnson State College in Johnson, Vermont and number two of the edition was unveiled in 2014 at the Brattleboro Retreat, in Brattleboro, Vermont. Continuing to populate the Retreat campus with elephants, last year, Cronin installed a 7′ version of “XXO” there.
She is the author of Bronze Casting in a Nutshell and currently serves as the Chair of board of The Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.
WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE YOU
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 3″H x 4″W x 8″D .
These cute mouse shoes reflect a sweet moment between parent and child.
SHHH…LISTEN
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: Plaster
Size: 3.5″H x 5″W x 8″D .
When you turn these seashells over to hear the ocean, they listen back!
GOLF SHOES
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
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This pair of bronze shoe sculptures will fit your favorite lady golfer’s taste to a tee!
UP PERISCOPE
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 8.75″H x 5″W x 7″D .
POLAR PERSPECTIVE
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 10″H x 8″W x 14″D .
PIG PILE
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 10″H x 8″W x 14″D .
GESUNDHEIT
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 6″H x 5″W x 11″D .
ELEPHANUT
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 6″H x 5″W x 5″D .
BUTTER UP
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 8″H x 6″W x 13″D .
BUNNYBALL
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 1.75″H x 1.5″W x 2″D .
RUNAWAY PEA
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 4″H x 2 1/2″W x 6 1/2″D .
THE TOP RUNG
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 20″H x 7″W x 8″D .
This is the step we wish to be on at times and other times perhaps not. Ladders conjure many interpretations. You may have one of your own.
RABBIT TILE
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: Bronze relief
Size: 6 x 5
A very dapper fellow, this little rabbit feels like a folksy tale from older times.
STEPS
Susan Read Cronin
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Medium: Bronze
Size: 10 x 5 x 6
Steps to the great unknown.
CRAWLING ROCK
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 10″ x 4″ x 4″
A perfect accent for your tiny garden or indoor plant arrangements. A rock is always necessary.
RUNNING SCISSORS
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 8″ x 8″ x 1″
A perfect choice for the seamstress’s wall!
THE DINGALING FAMILY
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 15 in x 4 in x 4 in ea.
A MATTER OF BALANCE
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze
Size:
large- 6 feet 1 inch x 44 inch x 28 inch
medium- 22 in x 8 in x 12 in
small- 9 in x 7 in x 2 in
MRS. PEAR HAS A PIG
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 18 in x 8 in x 7 in
LOVE IS IN THE AIR
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 8 in. x 4 in. x 4 in.
WILL YOU MARRY ME?
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 17 in x 17 in x 7 in
A pachydermal proposal! A lovely sculpture to commemorate new beginnings of lives shared.
LOOKING FOR THE MAGIC
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Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture (last one!)
Size: 27 in x 14 in x 14 in
UPSY – DAISY
Price: SOLD
Medium: S/N Lim. Ed. Bronze Sculpture
Size: 14 in. x 16 in. x 4 in.
Three pigs…….one not little …..play on the seesaw with piggy whoops and glee, all balanced on the every day apple needed for good health!