Joan Snyder

(American, born 1940)

Joan Snyder is an American painter whose narrative abstractions reflect her interest in personal experiences and the ritualistic process of painting. Similarly to her contemporary Mary Heilmann, Snyder often cites poetry, nature, and daily life as the primary inspirations for her work. “I remember wanting more from Color Field painting and not being moved by Minimal art, which was mostly sculpture at the time,” she reflected. “These were the works that I was challenging—to have more in a painting, not less; to show the anatomy of a painting, the different layers as it was being made, the process.” Born on April 16, 1940 in Highland Park, NJ, she studied at Douglass College for undergraduate school and went on to receive her MFA from Rutgers University in 1966. After finishing school, Snyder began producing works that specifically addressed femininity, embedding materials such as thread and glitter into paintings that resemble female genitalia. In the early 1970s, the artist had begun her most famous series of works, gestural abstractions, which she called Stroke Paintings. Snyder has also participated in the Feminist Movement, founding the Mary H. Dana Women Artist Series in 1971, an organization which continues to champion the work of emerging and established female artists. Snyder currently splits her time between Woodstock and Brooklyn, NY. Today, her works are held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others.

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Joan Snyder (143 results)
Study for Sweet Kathy's song, 1977

Joan Snyder

Study for Sweet Kathy's song, 1977

Sale Date: June 12, 2014

Auction Closed

Screams/Whispers, 1972

Joan Snyder

Screams/Whispers, 1972

Sale Date: November 13, 2013

Auction Closed

Rough Pond IV; Art and the Nature of Grief I , 1991

Joan Snyder

Rough Pond IV; Art and the Nature of Grief I , 1991

Sale Date: November 16, 2013

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Little ripened fields, 2002

Joan Snyder

Little ripened fields, 2002

Sale Date: November 3, 2013

Auction Closed

Red/Yellow and Our Foremothers (2 works), 1977

Joan Snyder

Red/Yellow and Our Foremothers (2 works), 1977

Sale Date: September 20, 2013

Auction Closed

Study for Sweet Kathy's Song, 1977

Joan Snyder

Study for Sweet Kathy's Song, 1977

Sale Date: June 7, 2013

Auction Closed

The Other Side of the Mountain, 2009

Joan Snyder

The Other Side of the Mountain, 2009

Sale Date: March 7, 2013

Auction Closed

Alizarin and Ice, 2006

Joan Snyder

Alizarin and Ice, 2006

Sale Date: March 7, 2013

Auction Closed

Oasis, 2006

Joan Snyder

Oasis, 2006

Sale Date: October 20, 2012

Auction Closed

Line for Larry, 1970

Joan Snyder

Line for Larry, 1970

Sale Date: September 21, 2012

Auction Closed

Paint/Tree, 1990

Joan Snyder

Paint/Tree, 1990

Sale Date: September 9, 2011

Auction Closed

Untitled, 1971

Joan Snyder

Untitled, 1971

Sale Date: December 16, 2010

Auction Closed

Untitled (Squares), 1974

Joan Snyder

Untitled (Squares), 1974

Sale Date: December 16, 2010

Auction Closed

Resurrection, 1978

Joan Snyder

Resurrection, 1978

Sale Date: September 9, 2009

Auction Closed

Dear Craig

Joan Snyder

Dear Craig

Sale Date: November 17, 2009

Auction Closed

I saw stones weep, 1983

Joan Snyder

I saw stones weep, 1983

Sale Date: October 18, 2009

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Mommy why?, 1983–1984

Joan Snyder

Mommy why?, 1983–1984

Sale Date: May 17, 2008

Auction Closed

Study with totems, 1985

Joan Snyder

Study with totems, 1985

Sale Date: May 17, 2008

Auction Closed

God bless the child, 1980

Joan Snyder

God bless the child, 1980

Sale Date: May 17, 2008

Auction Closed

Dear Craig, 1972

Joan Snyder

Dear Craig, 1972

Sale Date: May 5, 2008

Auction Closed

Red (+ Yellow; 2 works), 1977

Joan Snyder

Red (+ Yellow; 2 works), 1977

Sale Date: March 7, 2008

Auction Closed

Free to imagine, like my child, 1985

Joan Snyder

Free to imagine, like my child, 1985

Sale Date: November 7, 2007

Auction Closed

An opera for Lilly, 1983

Joan Snyder

An opera for Lilly, 1983

Sale Date: February 26, 2007

Auction Closed

Red/Yellow (+ 3 others, 1 lithograph; 4 works), 1977

Joan Snyder

Red/Yellow (+ 3 others, 1 lithograph; 4 works), 1977

Sale Date: November 16, 2006

Auction Closed

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