Coleman, Marion Suehanna Darter "Mary Sue", 'Dick' (Mrs. Harvey B. Coleman). (1894-1956). B: Fort Worth. D: Los Angeles, California. Painter, graphic artist, teacher. Fort Worth, Midland. Mary Suehanna Darter Coleman was born in Fort Worth, TX on Nov. 16, 1893. Mary Darter graduated from Texas Christian University and then studied at the Art Students League in New York City under Bridgman, Mora, and Carlson. From New York she returned to Texas as an art instructor at Midland College, Texas Christian University, and Phillips University in Oklahoma. After her marriage to painter Harvey B. Coleman in 1925, she settled in Los Angeles. Among those with whom she further studied are Edgar Payne and Jack W. Smith. Mrs. Coleman died in Los Angeles on Dec. 17, 1956. Her work includes portraits and landscapes. Studied: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth with Dura B.Cockrell (graduate, 1915); Art Students League of New York (1915-1916); George Brandt Bridgman; Edward Penfield; Luis F. Mora; Dimitri Romanowsky; Robert Henri; Birge Harrison; Woodstock Art School John Fabian Carlson and Frank Swift Chase; Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles (three years); Armin Carl Hansen; Paul Lauritz; Jack Wilkinson Smith; Edwin Roscoe Shrader; Edgar Alwin Payne. Exhibitions: State Fair of Texas, Dallas, 1915, (drawing) (prize), 1917; Texas Artists Exhibition, Fort Worth Museum of Art, 1916, Water Carrier, 1918, Mountain Scene-Woodstock-New York, Snow Scene-Woodstock, Summer Scene-Woodstock, 1919, 1920, Grandpa, Nude, 1923, Point Fermin-California, Santa Monica-California, 1924, Exterior Mission San Juan Capistrano-California, Near Burbank-California, Scene near San Fernando-California, 1925, Gray Day-Los Angeles, Mountain Stream, 1926, A California Scene-Griffith Park, 1927, Dark Waters, 1928, Dark Waters, Golden Autumn, 1933, Heart of the Desert, 1936, Early Snow, 1937, Autumn; Dallas Woman's Forum, 1919, Blue Mountains, Nude Figure, 1920, 1925, Mountain Stream (honorable mention); Fort Worth Painters Club, 1922, Griffith Park, California Eucalyptus, Santa Monica, Eucalyptus near Westlake Park, Across the Field, Winter in New York, Study of a Tree, Across the Bay, Glendale-California, The Brook, Down the Road, Point Fermin; Los Angeles County Fair, 1929; All California Art Exhibition, 1934, Early Snow, Southern California Club, Pacific Coast Club Galleria, Long Beach, 1956; Pasadena Art Institute; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; California State Fair, Sacramento; Arizona State Fair; Men's Athletic Club Los Angeles; Allied Artists, Fort Worth. Collections: Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Landscape. Coleman taught art at Midland Christian College (1916-1917), Texas Christian University, Fort Worth (1917-1919, 1924-1925), and Phillips College, Enid, Oklahoma (1919-1920).