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Chester Snowden (Chester Genora Snowden) was born on 1900 in Elgin, Texas, is an American painter. Discover Chester Snowden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 84 years old?
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Chester Genora Snowden |
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84 years old |
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1900 |
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1900 |
| Birthplace |
Elgin, Texas |
| Date of death |
1984 |
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Houston, Texas |
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United States
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Chester Snowden Height, Weight & Measurements
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Chester Snowden Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Chester Snowden worth at the age of 84 years old? Chester Snowden’s income source is mostly from being a successful painter. He is from United States. We have estimated Chester Snowden's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Chester Dixon Snowden (1900–1984), was born Chester Genora Snowden in Elgin, Texas.
Snowden was the son of James Albert Snowden and Amelia Pearl Frazier.
He graduated from The University of Texas at Austin and attended the Cooper Union in New York as well as studying at the Art Students League of New York, Grand Central Galleries Art School (New York) and the Richard Art School in Los Angeles.
Snowden worked as a painter, illustrator, educator and playwright.
For decades, Snowden provided art for the publications of naturalist author, Royal Dixon.
Snowden exhibited regularly in Texas from the mid-1930s through 1960.
His works have been exhibited at various galleries and museums including The Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Contemporary Arts Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Snowden and Dixon were life partners and since 1934 lived together at "Camellia Place", located at 1310 Truxillo Street in Houston, Texas.
Snowden adopted the professional name, Chester Dixon Snowden, based on his relationship with Dixon.
As an illustrator, his social circles overlapped with the literary personalities of his time.
In 1934, he co-wrote with Margo Jones the Texas Centennial play "Pioneer Texas".
1935 11th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (honorable mention)
1936–37 12th–13th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
1937–39 Works by Southeast Texas Artists 1st-3rd Annual Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Works illustrated by Snowden include "Shafts of Gold" (1938), "Children of Hawaii" (1939), "Ape of Heaven", "Half Dark Moon" and "Wildwood Friends."
1939, 1941 Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1939–40 15th–16th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
1941 2nd Texas-Oklahoma General Exhibition, circulated: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Philbrook Art Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
1942–43 17th–18th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
1943 5th Texas General Exhibition 1943–1944, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1945 20th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
1945 7th Texas General Exhibition 1945–1946, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; University of Texas at Austin, Texas
By 1946, Snowden had illustrated twenty-two books.
1946 21st Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas (purchase prize)
1946 Annual Texas Artists Circuit Exhibition, traveled by Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, Texas
1947 22nd Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
1947 9th Texas General Exhibition 1947–1948, circulated: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; Witte Museum, San Antonio, Texas
1948 23rd Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
1948 10th Texas General Exhibition 1948–1949, circulated: Witte Museum, San Antonio; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
1949–50 24th–25th Annual Exhibition of Work by Houston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
A group exhibition of works by former students of the Museum School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston organized by Robert Preusser was shown in 1951.
It Included work by Snowden, Lowell Collins, Frank Freed, Gertrude Levy, Leila McConnell, Stella Sullivan and George Shackelford.
1951 Houston Post Easter Art Contest, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Since 1964, Chester Snowden and Alfred Zeller worked together in their Thirteen Ten Art Studio & Galleries, located at 1310 Truxillo Street in Houston, Texas.
They offered classes in oil painting and other mediums as well as framing.
Snowden reported in Houston's Mirror in 1968 that he had counted among his friends and acquaintances Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay and George Bernard Shaw.
His works included pen and ink drawings and many experiments in different mediums and was inspired by the works of Matisse and Picasso.
Snowden was always encouraging his students to try new media and new ideas in art.
Snowden died in 1984 and the location of his grave is unknown.
