The art of John Snow

Although everyone in Calgary's art community is familiar with the work of John Snow (1911-2004), there has never been a full-scale exhibition of Snow's art in his hometown, nor a monograph on the subject of his work. Yet there is evidence in plain sight that he was an artist of great power and individuality, whose work was shaped by the local and international literary avant-garde in ways that challenge conventional views of Alberta's art history. --

Deftly integrating the artist's archived papers, interviews with surviving contemporaries, and publications of the period, Herbert gives us access to Snow's rich-hued, varied, and venturesome artistic vocabulary and reveals the uniqueness of his approach to Modernism. He was esteemed as a mentor to many and acknowledged as a pioneer printmaker. In our time, the significance of his art has just begun to be measured. --Book Jacket.