Biography of JOHN HAROLD THOMAS SNOW

SNOW, John Harold Thomas RCA, ASA, CSGA (1911-active 2003). Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Snow studied life drawing evenings under Maxwell Bates at the Alberta College of Art, Calgary (1947-1949); and lithography at the University of Washington, Seattle (1953, 1954), but is otherwise self-taught. Known mainly as a printmaker working in woodblock, colour lithography, silkscreen, etching, acquatint, and linocuts, his subjects include figure studies, the Alberta prairie and foothills landscape, still life, and cityscapes. He also works in oil, watercolour and acrylic, as well as cement and wire sculptures. He worked for the Royal Bank of Canada (1928-1971), received a Canada Council award in 1966, and remains active in Calgary, Alberta. He is a Fellow of the International Institute of Arts and Letters, Switzerland. He held solo exhibitions of his work at the MAG in 1974, and EAG in 1989, and exhibited with the RCA in 1966-1970, and the MMFA in 1956-1962. His work is in the collections of the AAF, AGO, CCAB, EAG, LAG, NGC, ROM, VAG, VAM and WAG.

Biography courtesy of The Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction: Volume IV: S-Z

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