V. DOUGLAS SNOW

This exceptional painter has been a member of the University of Utah Department of Art faculty since 1954. After studying at the U of U (1943-45), he went to New York's American Art School and Columbia University (1946). Moving on to Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a year later, Snow achieved a B.F.A. (1949) and an M.F.A. (1950) there. Also at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome (1950-51), the painter taught at Stanford University (1952) and Wayne State University in Detroit (1952-54). Early on, he developed a strong abstract style based upon a profoundly resonant paint usage and distinctive palette, and became a nationally acclaimed artist who is best known locally in the Salt Lake Public Library and elsewhere, as well as for his rich romantic landscapes that are at once the same and very different from his earlier, more thoroughly abstracted, images on canvas. Now a professor emeritus, Snow lives and works in Capitol Reef country. Yet he occasionally returns to paint something like his 1997 mural for Salt Lake City's Scott M. Matheson Federal Courthouse.

Olpin, Robert S., William C. Seifrit, and Vern G. Swanson. ARTISTS OF UTAH. Salt Lake City: Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1999: 242.