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Helen and Edgar Snow
Commissioned portraits for the Helen and Edgar Snow Studies Center in Xi'an, China Airbrush acrylic on linen 36" x 48" Edgar Snow was a journalist from Kansas City who started a trip around the world in 1928 at the age of 23. He reached Shanghai and did not leave China for thirteen years. He and his wife, Helen settled in Peking and became friends with Chinese intellectuals and writers. He traveled through famine areas in Northwest China as a correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post and wrote Far Eastern Front, an account of Japanese aggression during this period. In 1936 he and Helen were allowed to pass through the Manchurian army forces at Xi'an to interview Mao Tse-tung and his rebel army in Baoan. He gave the West it's first glimpse of the Chinese Communism in his articles and book, Red Star Over China. He returned to the US and conferred with President Roosevelt. He later became a roaming foreign correspondent for Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Russia. In 1970 he returned to China and received an invitation to present to President Nixon to visit China. The Snows are revered in China for their efforts to promote cultural understanding. The Edgar Snow Library at the University of Missouri at Kansas City holds the largest collection of the Snows papers. The Helen and Edgar Snow Studies Center opened in Xi'an, China in 1996. |
