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Walter Snelgrove

Walter H. Snelgrove (1924 - 1995) was active/lived in California.  Walter Snelgrove is known for Modernist-leaning landscape, Bay Area Figurative.

Post War California artist, Walter Snelgrove studied at the University of Washington, the California School of Fine Arts under Hassel Smith and University of California under Margaret Petersen.

He had a solo exhibition at Gumps Gallery, San Francisco.

Selected Exhibitions:
Fourth Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, 1951; California Bay Area Figurative Painting, The Oakland Museum, 1957; Annual Painting and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association at the San Francisco Museum of Art, 1961; Richmond Art Center Annuals; Winter Invitational, California Palace of The Legion of Honor, San Francisco,
1961-64.

Awards:
James D. Phelan Traveling Scholarship.

Literature:
Thomas Albright, "Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980"

Collections:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Painting and Sculpture Collection.

Source:
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12 Book References for Walter Snelgrove
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 Landauer, Susan San Francisco and Second Wave: The Blair Collection of Bay Area Abstract Expressionism 240 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1997 Burgard, Timothy Anglin Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection 47 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1971 Graham, F Lanier Three Centuries of American Painting: From the Collections of M H deYoung Museum and Palace of Legion of Honor 111 Yes
1965 University of Illinois Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture
(Exhibition catalog)
210 No
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