Seena Donneson

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Seena Donneson
BornMay 1924
New York City [1]
DiedApril 16, 2020 (aged 95)
Queens, New York
NationalityAmerican
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Seena Donneson (May 1924 - April 16, 2020) (also known as Seena Donneson Gershwin) was an American sculptor and printmaker. [2] [3] She studied at the Pratt Institute and at the Art Students League of New York. [2]

Collections

Donneson's work is held in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, [1] the Museum of Modern Art, New York, [4] the Brooklyn Museum, [5] the Portland Art Museum [6] and the Amon Carter Museum of American Art. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Seena Donneson | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu.
  2. 1 2 Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (19 December 2013). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-135-63889-4.
  3. "Seena Donneson Gershwin 1924 - 2020". New York Times. Retrieved 30 November 2021.
  4. "Seena Donneson. Phoenix. 1968 | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  5. "Brooklyn Museum". www.brooklynmuseum.org.
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