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Artist John Harold Thomas Snow
Title Gallery #5/45
Media colour lithograph on paper
Dated 1980
Size 18 x 26 in. / 45.7 x 66 cm.
Frame Size 27.25 x 35.25 x 0.75 in.
Sold $450 Estimate $500 - $700

Notes
signed, titled and numbered along bottom; framed with archival mat

Provenance
private collection, Calgary


Biographical Information
John Harold Thomas Snow ~ [1911-2004] Canadian ASA, CSGA, RCA
Snow was born in Vancouver in 1911, lived in England during WW1 and with the family returned to Olds, Alberta in 1919. He had successful career for over 43 years with the Royal Bank of Canada and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. After the war he and Maxwell Bates began a fruitful friendship that invigorated the art scene in Calgary and supported the modernist period of art in Alberta. As self-taught printers they began making lithographs with two old machine presses they rescued from an alleyway and this medium came to define Snow's work, though he also worked in watercolour, oil, mixed media, concrete sculpture, textiles, and intaglio relief. In addition to his talent in the visual arts, Snow was an accomplished musician who helped create the New Works Calgary Society and he also organized the Calgary Film Society in the late 1940s. He was inducted as a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1996. His residence and studio is now registered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; see John Snow House

For more detailed biographical information see Government of Alberta and Feckless Collection; see a comprehensive 2002 article written in Galleries West; see also John Snow: Four Decades, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1990; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.101 and pg.65; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.137 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.425; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.42, pl.45a, UofC Press; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.35, Westbridge Pub., 2003 for biography; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.383 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.360

Historical Results for this Artist

Sold
CAD $450 - Paddle # 8687
Bidding History
Paddle #
Date
Amount
8687
4/21/2024 2:24:35 PM
CAD $450
102758
4/21/2024 11:19:35 AM
CAD $425
8687
4/21/2024 10:49:54 AM
CAD $400
102544
4/21/2024 10:24:00 AM
CAD $375
6542
4/20/2024 11:11:53 AM
CAD $350
102706
4/20/2024 11:11:53 AM
CAD $325
6542
4/19/2024 5:45:40 PM
CAD $300
102688
4/19/2024 1:27:12 PM
CAD $275
6542
4/19/2024 1:27:12 PM
CAD $250
102688
4/19/2024 1:27:12 PM
CAD $240
6542
4/19/2024 1:27:12 PM
CAD $230
102688
4/14/2024 8:13:20 PM
CAD $220
100646
4/14/2024 8:13:20 PM
CAD $210
102688
4/14/2024 9:34:11 AM
CAD $200
1744
4/12/2024 12:08:10 PM
CAD $190
3313
4/5/2024 5:44:13 PM
CAD $180
9686
4/5/2024 5:44:07 PM
CAD $170
3313
4/5/2024 5:44:07 PM
CAD $160
9686
4/5/2024 5:44:03 PM
CAD $150
3313
4/5/2024 5:44:03 PM
CAD $140

Biographical Information
John Harold Thomas Snow ~ [1911-2004] Canadian ASA, CSGA, RCA
Snow was born in Vancouver in 1911, lived in England during WW1 and with the family returned to Olds, Alberta in 1919. He had successful career for over 43 years with the Royal Bank of Canada and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force in WWII. After the war he and Maxwell Bates began a fruitful friendship that invigorated the art scene in Calgary and supported the modernist period of art in Alberta. As self-taught printers they began making lithographs with two old machine presses they rescued from an alleyway and this medium came to define Snow's work, though he also worked in watercolour, oil, mixed media, concrete sculpture, textiles, and intaglio relief. In addition to his talent in the visual arts, Snow was an accomplished musician who helped create the New Works Calgary Society and he also organized the Calgary Film Society in the late 1940s. He was inducted as a member of the Alberta Order of Excellence in 1996. His residence and studio is now registered on the Canadian Register of Historic Places; see John Snow House

For more detailed biographical information see Government of Alberta and Feckless Collection; see a comprehensive 2002 article written in Galleries West; see also John Snow: Four Decades, by M.Joslin, E.A.G., 1990; Founders of the A.C.A., by V.Greenfield, pg.101 and pg.65; Printmaking in Alberta 1945-1985, by B.Cochran, pg.137 and A.G.O., by the A.G.O., pg.425; included in Jubilee Exhibition of Alberta Paintings, by J.Nicoll, pg.28, Calgary Allied Art Centre, 1955; included in Alberta Society of Artists, the First Seventy-Five Years, by K.Zimon, pg.42, pl.45a, UofC Press; Collector's Dictionary of Canadian Artists at Auction, by A.Westbridge, Vol.4, pg.35, Westbridge Pub., 2003 for biography; exhibition lists in R.C.A.A., pg.383 and M.M.F.A., by E.McMann, pg.360

Historical Results for this Artist

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