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Amanda Tester Snyder

Amanda Tester Snyder (1894 - 1980) was active/lived in Oregon.  Amanda Snyder is known for Modernist figure, still life, clowns, birds, houses and animal painting.

Amanda Tester Snyder is known for her paintings of birds, clowns, dolls, still life, houses, and barns as well as for her abstract compositions. Her works—which combine strong forms, vigorous brushwork, and rich color—align her with other early modern painters in Oregon, including her friends C.S. Price and Charles Heaney.

Amanda Tester was born near Mountain City, Tennessee, the oldest of the five children of William Jefferson Tester and Della Lee Hull Tester. When she was nine, the family moved to Roseburg, Oregon. In grade school, she showed aptitude for art, as did her younger brother Jefferson Tester (1899-1972), who also became an artist.

In 1916, Amanda married Edmund Snyder, an Aurora Colony descendant. They settled in Portland, where their son Eugene was born in 1918. She took classes at the Portland Museum Art School in 1917 and studied with Sidney Bell, a portrait painter from England, in 1925.

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Amanda Tester Snyder available:    Melville Wire,  Albert Patecky,  Arthur Runquist,  Jefferson Tester,  Charles Heaney,  Louis Demott Bunce,  Andrew McDuffie Vincent,  Milton Wilson,  Alfred Schroff,  Clyde Leon Keller,  Bird LeFever,  Byron J Gardner,  Percy Manser,  Thomas (Austin) Hardy,  Colista Murray Dowling,  Carl Morris,  Louis Schaff,  George Stimmel,  Edward Burns Quigley,  Harry Leonard Lopp,  Eliza Barchus,  William Samuel Parrott,  Emilie Sievert Weinberg,  Kenneth Callahan



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Facts about Amanda Tester Snyder

   Publications  Book References:  5
Magazine References:  1

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1 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Amanda Tester Snyder
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review The Lure of Pacific Northwest Art February 1999 Hull, Roger Yes
5 Book References for Amanda Tester Snyder
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Allan, Lois; Matthew Kangas Northwest Matriarchs of Modernism: 12 Proto-Feminists from Oregon and Washington (The Art Gym, Marylhurst University)
(Exhibition catalog)
20 Yes
2006 Joki, Robert L. & Marsha T. Matthews, editors.Oregon Historical Society, Portland Oregon Originals The Art of Amanda Snyder & Jefferson Tester 47 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
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