The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 13, 2025

Oasis

2006

Joan Snyder

(American, 1940-)
printer

Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University

publisher

Print Club of New York

America
color digital print, color screenprint, and hand-coloring on wove paper
Image: 45.9 x 50.3 cm (18 1/16 x 19 13/16 in.); Sheet: 52.7 x 57.1 cm (20 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Print Club of New York 2021.111
Catalogue raisonné: Symmes 64.9
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Joan Snyder experimented with the color used in this image, printing it in various combinations before settling on the one seen here.

Description

Joan Snyder is among the most avid and committed printmakers of the Women’s Art Movement, a loosely formed group of feminist artists active beginning in the late 1960s. Prints such as this explore issues related to womanhood through both personal and universal imagery and text. Here, Snyder used abstract, painterly forms to evoke a pond, which she tied broadly to the transitions of life, such as death and growth.
  • 2006-2021
    Print Club of New York, New York, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2021-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Symmes, Marilyn. Dancing with the Dark: Joan Snyder Prints, 1963-2010. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2011. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 165, no. 64.9
  • {{cite web|title=Oasis|url=false|author=Joan Snyder, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions at Rutgers University, Print Club of New York|year=2006|access-date=13 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2021.111