Michael Seward Snow
Cornish Landscape and Islands, 1953
Pencil and oil paint on artist's board
11.5 x 15.5 inches
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Belgrave Gallery, St. Ives
Note: Michael Seward SNOW was an artist and teacher, born in Manchester. He was educated at Lawrence Sheriff School, Rugby, worked for three years in Cheshire, then settled in Cornwall in 1952. He was elected to membership of the Penwith Society, became secretary in 1954 and showed regularly until resigning in 1965. Snow was closely associated with Ben Nicholson and other advanced St Ives-based artists. He was a co-founder of the Peterloo Group in Manchester in 1957 and had a solo exhibition there in 1959. Other solo shows were held in St Ives and at Rowan Gallery in 1964 and he showed widely in group exhibitions in London and the provinces as well as overseas.