Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1930s.
"Bugs, Undergrowth" measures 35 x 31 cmand is signed and dated 1932 at the lower left.
Snedeker studied drawing and painting at the National Academy of
Design and later at the Art Students League. She was influenced by
Kenneth Hayes Miller, a classical realist painter and a teacher at the
Art Students League. She exhibited frequently in galleries and museums
throughout the 1930s, occasionally selling artwork but mostly
supporting herself through pen-and-ink drawings for The New Yorker.
Ms. Snedeker’s notable New Yorker covers include “Untitled
(Bolsheviks),” published on June 10, 1939. Two artists on a sidewalk
carry a huge painting depicting Hitler, Mussolini, Hirohito and Franco
surrounded by chaos and an ugly four-tongued, swastika-covered snake.
High above, a weeping angel grieves at the events unfolding on earth.
This was Ms. Snedeker’s first cover illustration for The New Yorker,
which led to an exclusive contract with the magazine as an
illustrator.
After World War ll, Snedecker married, and moved to Ridgefield, New
Jersey where she eventually quit painting and illustrating, and
instead focused on domestic life and raising a family. She is not
known to have ever picked up a brush again after about 1949, despite
living to the ripe old age of 91. Although Snedecker's work was
shelved for decades, it has recently begun to be noticed again.
A major retrospective, "Capturing the Spirit: Virginia Snedeker and
the American Scene" was held at Morven Museum in Princetown in 2006
and the Morris Museum, New Jersey, in 2008 In 2009 her work was
included in a group show at the Zimmerli Art Museum, entitled “A
Parallel Presence: National Association of Women Artists, 1889- 2009”.
Skippings Fine Arts has dated this piece to the 1930s.
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"Bugs, Undergrowth" Highly Unusual Rare New York Woman Artist Virginia Snydecker(1909 - 2000) Dated 1932 Oil Painting