BIOGRAPHY
Doug Snow, a Salt Lake City native, studied at Columbia University and earned his BFA and MFA degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and when he returned to Utah, joined the faculty in the University of Utah’s Department of Art. He served as the department chair from 1957-63 and brought modern and contemporary influences to the U’s Art Department. Doug Snow was one of the state’s leading and most significant abstractionist painters.