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Born 1940 Highland Park, New Jersey. Known for: Abstraction, collage, and floral painting, prints.
Painter and printmaker Joan Snyder, born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, has gone through a variety of subject matter in her career, all in an Expressionist*, highly personal vein. In the... Read full biography
Painter and printmaker Joan Snyder, born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, has gone through a variety of subject matter in her career, all in an Expressionist*, highly personal vein. In the 1960s, she painted landscapes and portraits; in the 1970s, abstract, gestural* work evolving to feminist*... Read full biography
Painter and printmaker Joan Snyder, born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, has gone through a variety of subject matter in her career, all in an Expressionist*, highly personal vein. In the 1960s, she painted landscapes and portraits; in the 1970s, abstract, gestural* work evolving to feminist* subject matter; the 1980s, autobiographical subject matter and concern for the children of the world. Snyder often incorporates three-dimensional, collage* elements like cloth and even straw in her... Read full biography
Painter and printmaker Joan Snyder, born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, has gone through a variety of subject matter in her career, all in an Expressionist*, highly personal vein. In the 1960s, she painted landscapes and portraits; in the 1970s, abstract, gestural* work evolving to feminist* subject matter; the 1980s, autobiographical subject matter and concern for the children of the world. Snyder often incorporates three-dimensional, collage* elements like cloth and even straw in her painting, and uses items for symbolic imagery related to women's consciousness raising such as valentines, cheesecloth, and chicken wire. Snyder earned her B.A. degree in 1962 from Douglass College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey,... Read full biography
Painter and printmaker Joan Snyder, born in Highland Park, New Jersey in 1940, has gone through a variety of subject matter in her career, all in an Expressionist*, highly personal vein. In the 1960s, she painted landscapes and portraits; in the 1970s, abstract, gestural* work evolving to feminist* subject matter; the 1980s, autobiographical subject matter and concern for the children of the world. Snyder often incorporates three-dimensional, collage* elements like cloth and even straw in her painting, and uses items for symbolic imagery related to women's consciousness raising such as valentines, cheesecloth, and chicken wire. Snyder earned her B.A. degree in 1962 from Douglass College of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and an M.F.A. degree in 1966 also from Rutgers. She married a photographer, and she and her husband moved to Martins Creek, Pen... Read full biography
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Art Method
- •Collage and/or Decoupage
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Murals: Design, Painting, Fresco, Mosaic, Glass
- •Palette Knife, Heavy Texture
- •Sculpture, Three Dimensional Forms, Sculptor
Art Media
- •Acrylic Paint
- •Assemblage
- •Charcoal
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Monoprint, Monotype, Monograph
- •Oil Paint
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
- •Abstract Expressionism
- •Abstraction, Abstract
- •Expressive, Expressionist, Expressionism
- •Gestural/ Action /Drip/Poured Painting
- •Pure Abstraction, Line, Shape, Color, Texture
Art Subject
- •Feminist Themes, Women's Equality, Feminism
- •Floral Landscape, Wildflowers
- •Floral Still Life, Floral Motifs, Flowers
- •Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
- •Portraits, Portraiture
- •Still Life
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •Long Island, New York
Art School
- •Parsons, The New School for Design, Teacher
- •San Francisco Art Institute, Teacher
- •School of Visual Arts, New York, Teacher
- •Yale University School of Fine Art, and Architecture, Teacher
Awards/Recognition
- •John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- •John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
- •National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Chronology
- •Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
- •Abstraction Specialty
- •Art Educator:Teaching, Scholarship, Workshops and/or Writing
- •Printmaking Specialty
Exhibition of Museum
- •Corcoran Gallery and/or Art School, Washington DC
- •Museum of Modern Art, New York
- •Whitney Biennial Museum of American Art