Dan E. Snyder (1926–2004) was an American educator and artist who served as a professor of dramatic art at the University of California, Davis. His work crossed disciplinary boundaries, reflecting the university's environment of artistic experimentation during the 1960s and 1970s. Snyder’s Painter of Greeness (1972), a mixed-media drawing in the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection, combines graphite, ink, acrylic paint and newsprint on board, bringing together drawing, painting and collage materials in a figurative composition. Its title and portrait subject suggest an interest in artistic identity and the creative process, themes that resonate with Snyder's background in dramatic art. The drawing entered the collection as a gift from Wayne Thiebaud, Snyder's fellow UC Davis faculty colleague.