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Painter V. Douglas Snow
Memorial: Nov. 21st 10am at Salt Lake Main Library
Painter V. Douglas Snow was one of the few Utah artists locals knew by first glance, even if they didn't know the artist's name. His murals make majestic the Leonardo Museum, Salt Lake City International Airport and the Simmons Pioneer Memorial Theatre, to name a few. Snow's paintings appear in New York's Museum of Modern Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as in several Utah collections, according to his biography. His work once was featured in an article and full-color spread in Life magazine. Snow studied at the University of Utah, New York's American Art School, Columbia University and the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan before winning a Fulbright Scholarship to the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. And he served as Chair of the University of Utah Art Department from 1966-71.
Frank McEntire, former Utah Arts Council [executive director] and longtime friend of Snow will be conducting a memorial for Snow on Nov. 21st at 10 AM at the Salt Lake downtown Library in the auditorium.
McEntire said many of Snow's most significant achievements were as an instructor. "He impacted the lives of countless students and others by encouraging careers," McEntire said.
As a professor at the University of Utah, Snow also worked to bring exhibits by Andrew Wyeth, Robert Motherwell, Ben Shahn, Stuart Davis, Abraham Rattner, and Rico Le Brun.
But "big-city famous" was not what Snow wanted for himself, McEntire said. He, instead, immersed himself in the southern Utah landscape and the feelings it gave him.
In a written eulogy, McEntire cites a passage in a 1992 journal by Snow:
"To be in this country; to live in it much of your life; to understand its geology, its history, to see it in all its seasons, and still, ultimately, to know nothing that can summarize it. All you can do is have faith in the strength of the experience, paint, 'not knowing,' but with conviction in the significance of those feelings."
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