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{{short description|American artist}}

{{Infobox artist
| name          = S.P. Harper
| image         =SPHarper painting studio.jpg
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| caption       = S.P. Harper in her painting studio
| birth_name     = Susan Gail Picking
(contracted; show full) California]], [[San Diego County]]. Her grandfather, Archibald Picking was a highly skilled diamond-cutter called a [[Diamantaire]] who was responsible for [[Diamond cut|cutting]], polishing and transforming a rough diamond into a finished gemstone ready for setting. This had an influential effect upon Susan's artwork. <ref>{{cite web|url=http://sdvoyager.com/interview/art-life-s-p-harper/|title=Art and Life with S.P. Harper|date=23 July 2018|website=San Diego Voyager|access-date=8 January 2018
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Harper studied art under the mentorship of Lyrical Abstractionist [[Paul Jenkins (painter)]] at the [[American University of Paris]], France. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Roski School of Fine Art at [[University of Southern California]] in 1977. She is also an alumnus of [[ArtCenter College of Design]], Class of '79.  She lived in New York producing work for 12 years before moving to Los Angeles to teach and exhibit her artworks.  As an Art Professor at the [[Ame(contracted; show full)*[https://www.wmagazine.com/story/mandy-and-cliff-einstein-art-collection-home-los-angeles Mandy and Cliff Einstein at Home: Inside the Museum-Worthy Art Collection of the L.A. Power Couple]

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[[Category:1955 births]]
[[Category:21st-century American painters]]
[[Category:American women painters]]
[[Category:Living people]]