“Study for FMSWNL “

Year	1980
Medium	lithograph
Size	450 x 870 mm
Edition size	100 10/100
Signature	lower right in pencil

Joan Snyder, (born April 16, 1940), is an American painter and printmaker from New York. She is a MacArthur Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellow. Snyder first gained public attention in the early 1970s with her gestural and elegant “stroke paintings,” which used the grid to deconstruct and retell the story of abstract painting. By the late seventies, Snyder had abandoned the formality of the grid. She began more explicitly incorporating symbols and text, as the paintings took on a more complex materiality. These early works were included in the 1973 and 1981 Whitney Biennials and the 1975 Corcoran Biennial. Joan Snyder is also an accomplished printmaker, freely experimenting with a wide variety of techniques. Snyder employs and combines an array of techniques using etching, woodcut, lithography, monotype, and digital. Many of her prints are enhanced by colourful applications of paint and pastel. Exhibition: The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers New Brunswick, New Jersey 'Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010"