Like other artists in the first half of the twentieth century, Virginia Snedeker found her inspiration in the daily life of people on the streets and in their neighborhoods. Through a graphic style, she caught the mood and temper of American urban life. Her work has been compared to that of Edward Hopper; though where Hopper concentrated on how light captures and defines a moment, Snedeker looked only at the moment itself and how the people shaped the action.

The Morris Museum thanks Virginia Snedeker’s brother, Dick Snedeker, and Anne Gossen of the Morven Museum and Gardens, for their collaboration in organizing this exhibition.