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Chester Dixon Snowden 1"Harlequin" 19511951
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Chester Snowden (1900 - 1984) Houston Artist Size: 16 x 12 Frame: 23 x 19 Medium: Oil 1951
Biography
Chester Snowden (1900 - 1984) Houston Artist
Chester Snowden was born in Elgin, Texas. He attended The University of Texas in Austin and the Cooper Union in New York as well as studying at the Art Students League of New York, Grand Central Galleries Art School, also in New York and the Richard Art School in Los Angeles. His teachers included Harry Sternberg, Boardman Robinson and Walter Jack Duncan. Snowden worked as a painter and an illustrator, for decades providing art for the publications of naturalist author, Royal Dixon. As an illustrator, his social circles overlapped with the literary personalities of his time. He reported in Houston’s Mirror in 1968 that he had counted among his friends and acquaintances Robert Frost, George Bernard Shaw and Edna St. Vincent Millay and that his studio was once owned by O Henry. He showed in many Annual Exhibitions of Work by Houston Artists as well as the Annual Southeast Texas Artists Exhibition, Texas General Exhibition, Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition and Texas Painting and Sculpture Exhibition. He also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. His work can be found in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- Creator:Chester Dixon Snowden 1 (1904 - 1984, American)
- Creation Year:1951
- Dimensions:Height: 23 in (58.42 cm)Width: 19 in (48.26 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)
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- Condition:Don't forget to view our other items including other Chester Snowden paintings on our 1stdibs storefront.
- Gallery Location:San Antonio, TX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU76933023223
Chester Dixon Snowden 1
Chester Snowden graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. Snowden was known as an illustrator of books. He was born in Elgin, Texas, and he died in Houston, Texas, in 1984.
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