1965 – 69    

Annual Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
National Cowboy Hall of Fame, Oklahoma City, OK

1970  

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Two man show (Robert Lougheed/Gordon Snidow)                         National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1971  

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, OK

1972    

One man show – C.M. Russell Museum – Helena, MT   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1973  

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1974  

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1975  

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1976   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1977   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1978   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1979    

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

1980    

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Western Heritage Sale – Aldophus Hotel – Dallas, Texas

1981    

One man retrospect show
Thomas Gilcrease Museum of American History and Art
Tulsa, Oklahoma

 Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
 Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Beijing Exhibit Center
Beijing, Peoples Republic of China

1982   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Western Heritage Sale
Shamrock Hotel – Houston, Texas

1983    

Le Grand Palais Exhibit – Paris, France

University of Texas Institute of Texas Cultures
Austin, Texas

San Jose Museum of Art – San Jose, California

Glenbow Museum – Calgary, Canada

Library of Congress – Washington, D.C.

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Western Heritage Sale – Shamrock Hotel – Houston, Texas

1984    

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Western Heritage Sale – Shamrock Hotel – Houston, Texas

1985  

Honored Artist, Experience the West Show
Museum of the Rockies – Billings, Montana

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Western Heritage Sale – Shamrock Hotel – Houston, Texas

1986    

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Art In Miniature – Thomas Gilcrease Museum
Tulsa, Oklahoma

1987   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit
Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Nina Stewart Haley Library – Midland, Texas

Art in Miniature – Thomas Gilcrease Museum – Tulsa, Oklahoma

1988       

Opcal Charity Show – Playboy Mansion – Beverly Hills, California

Western Invitational – Thomas Gilcrease Museum 
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, Arizona

1989       

Art in Miniature – Thomas Gilcrease Museum – Tulsa, Oklahoma

National Academy of Western Art – National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1990       

Artists of America – Colorado History Museum – Denver, Colorado

Southwest Realism – Museum of Fine Arts
Santa Fe, New Mexico

National Academy of Western Art – National Cowboy Hall of Fame Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Hubbard Award of Excellence – Hubbard Museum
Ruidoso, New Mexico

Hubbard Exhibit – Amerika Haus – Berlin, Germany

Hubbard Exhibit – Central Artist’s House at Grimsky Val
Moscow, Russia

1991   

Hubbard Award of Excellence – Hubbard Museum
Ruidoso, New Mexico

Southwest Realism – Taiwan Museum of Art – Taichung, Taiwan

Cowboy Artists of America Museum – Kerrville, Texas

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

1992   

Santa Fe Watercolor Society’s Inaugural Show
Millicent Rogers Museum – Taos, New Mexico
   
Santa Fe Watercolor Society Show – Royal Watercolor Society  London, England

1993   

Santa Fe Watercolor Society Show – Museum of the Horse  Ruidoso, New Mexico

Artist’s of America Show – Colorado History Museum
Denver, Colorado

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

1994   

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

1995   

One-Man Show, Museum of the Horse 
Hollywood Park, California

Tucson Festival Society, 1996 Artist of the Year

Art in Miniature – Thomas Gilcrease Museum – Tulsa, Oklahoma

1996   

President and founding member of The Santa Fe Watercolor Society

Christie’s South Kensington Wildlife Art Sale and Exhibition, Natural History Museum - London, England

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

“Covering the West/The Best of Southwest Art,” Exhibition, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ; National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Los Angeles, CA; Albuquerque Museum of Art, NM

Prix de West Show at The National Cowboy Hall of Fame  Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

15th Annual Buffalo Bill Art Show and Sale – Cody, Wyoming, catalog cover and purchased by Wild Bill Cody Museum for exhibit in permanent collection.  William E. Weis Purchase award

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

1997    

Women of the American West exhibit and sale
Cowboy Artist of America Museum - Kerrville, Texas 

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Prix de West Show 
National Cowboy Hall of Fame - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Artist’s of America Show – Colorado History Museum
Denver, Colorado

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

Art in Miniature – Thomas Gilcrease Museum Assoc.,
Tulsa, Oklahoma

1998    

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Featured Artist and CD Cover artist for Michael Martin Murphey’s Westfest – Silver Creek, Colorado

Cowboy Artists of America Museum “All In The Family” Exhibit  Kerrville, Texas

New Mexico Governor’s Annual Award for Excellence in the Arts  State Capitol Building – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Desert Caballeros Western Museum, “A Brush with Reality:  Detailing the West in Contemporary Art” Exhibition

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

University of Wyoming Fall Exhibition “Realism in Contemporary Art in the American West”

Art in Miniature – Thomas Gilcrease Museum Assoc.,
Tulsa, Oklahoma

1999   

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Grand Masters Show, Claggett/Rey Gallery – Vail, Colorado

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

2000   

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show and Sale
Cheyenne, Wyoming

Grand Masters Show, Claggett/Rey Gallery – Vail, Colorado

“I Want To Be A Cowboy” Exhibit, CAA Museum – Kerrville, Texas

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

2001   

CM Russell Auction of Original Art – Great Falls, Montana

New Mexico Governor’s Gallery Exhibit – Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lincoln County Artists Exhibit, Hubbard’s Museum of The American West – Ruidoso, New Mexico
    
Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Grand Masters Show, Claggett/Rey Gallery – Vail, Colorado

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

2002   

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Hubbard’s Museum of The American West “My Story” Retrospective Exhibition – Ruidoso, New Mexico

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy Hall of Fame – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Grand Masters Show, Claggett/Rey Gallery – Vail, Colorado

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

National Center for American Western Art “My Story” Retrospective Exhibition – Kerrville, Texas

2003   

“Night of the Artists” Show
National Center for American Western Art – San Antonio, Texas

Desert Caballeros Western Museum Exhibition
Wickenburg, Arizona

Smithsonian Institution “My Story” Retrospective Exhibition,
Arts and Industries Building – Washington, DC

Cowboy Artists of America Museum Art Stampede
Kerrville, Texas

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Friends of Western Art Exhibition, Tucson Museum of Art 
Tucson, Arizona

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

2004   

Thomas Gilcrease Museum 25th Anniversary Rendezvous
Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Museum of Western Art Stampede Roundup
Kerrville, Texas

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Cowboy Artists of America Show, Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, Arizona

2005   

Prix de West Show
National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

25th Annual Cheyenne Frontier Days Western Art Show  Cheyenne, Wyoming

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

2006   

CM Russell Auction of Original Art – Great Fall, Montana

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum – Phoenix, Arizona

Thomas Gilcrease Museum Rendezvous – Tulsa, Oklahoma

Phippen Museum Art of the American West Exhibit
“Friends of the Phippen Showcase the Cowboy Artist of America”

2007    

CM Russell Masters In Miniature Auction of Original Art
Great Falls, Montana

Cowboy Artists of America Exhibit – Phoenix Art Museum  Phoenix, Arizona

Gordon Snidow has been known as the foremost chronicler of the contemporary cowboy for over thirty-nine years. He is a leader in the development of the American Western Art Movement, and is one of America's outstanding fine artists. "The West, like all places, is a continuum of space and time; it is as alive and vibrant in today's guise - and as Snidow paints it - as it was when George Catlin, Charles M. Russell, Frederic Remington and their successors through the years painted it.He is a historian who records his time in pictures rather than words, and as Russell and other in-their-time "contemporary" chroniclers of the Westare seen today as painters of the "Historic West," so Snidow will be seen in the future." Prix de West 1998 catalog

Snidow is recording other aspects of his time. Those include his American Woman Series, Homeless, Wildlife, and one specific work recognizable anywhere in the country today - an adobe wall covered with graffiti. All are parts of his view of the "whole fabric" of the modern West. He paints it not as he would like it to be, but the way it is - ugliness and all. There are no guarantees for the future of the cowboy, but there is for his past. Thanks to Gordon Snidow, the cowboy in the late 20th century, and his Western world will be preserved.

Snidow was born in Paris, Missouri in 1936 and moved from there to Oklahoma, and then to Texas. He earned a BFA from the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles, CA. He is a charter member of the Cowboy Artists of America. When he retired after 25 years to become a member emeritus, he was the Cowboy Artists Of America top medal winner. Snidow had won 27 Gold and Silver Medals, including three for Best of Show. His work can be found in the permanent collection of the leading Western art museums including the Thomas Gilcrease Museum, the National Cowboy Hall of Fame, the Cowboy Artists of America Museum, the Cody Museum, and the Phoenix Art Museum.

In 2003, Snidow was honored with a retrospective exhibtion at the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building in Washington DC. The exhibition, "Gordon Snidow - My Story" featured more than 100 works of art spanning over four decades of his career.

ABOUT THE PAINTING MEDIUM - GOUACHE
(Pronounced, Grr-wash) as used by Gordon Snidow.

Gouache can be applied in light transparent washes and/or mixed with white. It is a very difficult medium to master, since the value of the paint thatis wet is darker than the when it dries on the paper.

Once the painting is finished, Snidow applies several coats of top grade varnish to the painting for protection. The advantage to using varnish, isto eliminate the use of glass and to return the color to the original intensity the artist saw when the color was wet.