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Joan Snyder

Mom's Just Out There Tryin’ to Break That Grid

Auction Closed

May 15, 11:34 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Joan Snyder

b. 1940


Mom's Just Out There Tryin’ to Break That Grid 

signed, titled and dated 1975 (on the stretcher)

oil, acrylic, papier-mâché, chicken wire and cheesecloth on canvas

72 by 144 in.

182.9 by 365.8 cm.

Executed in 1975.

Carl Solway Gallery, New York

Private Collection, New York (acquired from the above circa 1976)

Thence by descent to the present owner

New York, Carl Solway Gallery, Joan Snyder: New Work, 1974-75, 1976

State University of New York College at Purchase, Neuberger Museum of Art, Joan Snyder: Seven Years of Work, January - March 1978, no. 24, p. 29, illustrated, and p. 26

Sherman Drexler, “Joan Snyder at Carl Solway," Artforum, May 1976, p. 72

Jeff Perrone, “Cynthia Carlson.” Artforum, vol. 15, no. 5, January 1977

Hayden Herrera, Joan Snyder, New York 2005, pp. 43-44

Miranda Boulton, “Miranda Boulton Talks With Joan Snyder,” Turps Magazine, 3 July 2025, Issue 30, p. 5