Joan Snyder interview excerpt

02/08/11 • 6 min

Oral History Collection from the Archives of American Art

Artist Joan Snyder often includes text in her large, emotionally evocative, abstract paintings. In this excerpt from an oral history interview conducted in 2010 for the Archives of American Art, Snyder considers her conflicted feelings about adding words to her abstractions. The interview was funded by the Terra Foundation for American Art.

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