biography of Seena DONNESON (1924)

Birth place: New York, NY

Addresses: New York, NY

Profession: Graphic artist, painter

Studied: Pratt Inst; ASL New York, with Morris Kantor; Pratt Graphic Arts Ctr, with Michael Ponce de Leon; New Sch Social Res.

Exhibited: 4th Int Triennale of Original Colored Graphics, Grentchen, Switz, 1965; 15th Biennale, Brooklyn Mus, 1965; 15th Nat Print Exhib, Am Fedn Arts, 1966-1968; 2nd, 3rd, 4th Int Miniature Prints, Pratt Inst & NY State Coun Fine Arts, 1966-1972; Projected Art: Artists at Work, Finch Col, New York, 1971; Associated American Artists, New York, NY, 1970s. Awards: Res fel, MacDowell Colony, 1963, 1964; guest artist, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 1968; purchase award, W Wash State Col, 1970.

Member: Artists Equity Asn NY; Philadelphia Water Color Club; Print Club Philadelphia; Nat Asn Women Artists; Prof Artists Guild (pres, 1966-1967).

Work: MOMA, New York; Brooklyn Mus; Los Angeles Co Mus Art, Calif; Smithsonian Mus, Washington, DC; NJ State Mus, Trenton. Commissions: Ed of prints, Touchstone Press.

Comments: Positions: App mem, Nassau Co Fine Arts Comn, 1970-; exhib coordr, Dept Parks, Recreation & Cult Affairs, New York, 1972-. Teaching: Lect hist mod art, New York Univ, 1961-1963.

Sources: WW73; Gordon Brown, Young artists rebel against rectangular format," Art Voices (Winter, 1963)."