Paraskeva Clark’s Snowfall was included in the Exhibition of Contemporary Canadian Painting (“Southern Dominions Exhibition”), in 1936. The picture was well suited to the exhibition, which was considered “modern without being radical.” It demonstrated “the newer conception of painting figures and landscapes, new symbolisms of design and idea, new rhythms of line and colour.” The “typical” landscape was shifting away from the wilderness model favoured by the Group of Seven toward views of cultivated land indicating a human presence.