Michael Snow
Stool
-the 1955 drawing at 70 years

Michael Snow, Stool, 1955, graphite on paper, 13″ x 8″

On Michael Snow’s return to Toronto in 1954 from a 14 month sojourn through Europe, playing jazz and drawing on the go, he exhibited his first show of drawings. Seeing the exhibition, George Dunning invited Snow to join his firm, Graphic Associates, introducing him to animation, as well as his future wife, Joyce Wieland, also one of Dunning’s fine artists crew.

Dunning went on, among other projects, to be director-animator of the Beatles film, Yellow Submarine.

Snow went on, working with multi-media, drawing, painting, sculpture, sound and film, etc., to be one of the most internationally important and influential experimental filmmakers of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Snow’s play of words and title, Drawn to Film, begins the second sequence in his book,
MICHAEL SNOW – SEQUENCES – A HISTORY OF HIS ART, 2015,
published by Ediciones Poligrafa, Barcelona