“I am not a professional,” he declared in a statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. “My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor.” And, he added, “Sometimes they all work together.”
The artist Michael Snow in an undated photo, framed by an image of the Walking Woman, which was his trademark for much of the 1960s.Credit…Mike Slaughter/Toronto Star, via Getty Images