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2 unusual facts about Willis Steell


Willis Steell

Her father commissioned a portrait of her about 1923 from the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Müller-Ury, which was exhibited in 1925 and of which American Art News, April 11, 1925, said that it ‘...shows Mr. Ury at his most discerning.’ Susan (often later called Suzanne) was to enter Broadway, and became one of the close friends of Katharine Hepburn at the time of her first Hollywood success.

The reason he moved to Paris was to be near his daughter Susan Steell, who had won the first scholarship for American girls to study singing in Paris with the French mezzo-soprano Blanche Marchesi that was established in 1923 by the opera singer Marie Jeritza.



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