ABSTRACT
Suzy Frelinghuysen was born Estelle Condit Frelinghuysen in Newark, New Jersey. As granddaughter of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, who served as Secretary of State under President Chester A. Arthur, and grandniece of Theodore Frelinghuysen, the second chancellor of New York University and a US Senator from New Jersey, Suzy enjoyed a privileged upbringing, surrounded by luxuries that she continued to enjoy in her adult life. In 1935, she married the equally affluent and socially prominent artist George L. K. Morris. Unaffected by the financial constraints experienced by most Americans during the Great Depression, the couple divided their time between an elegant New York penthouse and a modernist home set in the tranquil woods of the Berkshire Mountains in Lenox, Massachusetts, which was outfitted throughout with frescoes painted by both husband and wife. Frelinghuysen's childhood pastime of painting evolved into a more serious undertaking, however, shortly after her marriage to Morris.
