Amanda Snyder

born Mountain City, Tennessee, 1894; died Portland, Oregon, 1980

BiographyAmanda Snyder’s realistic style became increasingly abstract over time. She experimented with texture in her works, not only through layering paint, but also paper collage and including objects such as pieces of string. She used minimal detail often outlining her subjects with heavy black lines. Some of her favorite subjects were portraits, still lifes, clowns and dolls, and images of animals.

Snyder took classes at Portland’s Museum Art School and also learned from her friend and mentor, the Oregon expressionist painter C. S. Price (1874-1950). She had thirty-two solo exhibitions during her lifetime including two at the Portland Art Museum and three at Reed College’s art gallery.

[source: Ginny Allen and Jody Klevit, "Oregon Painters: The First Hundred Years" and TAM wall label]

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