Seena Donneson, Cast Bronze Organic Husk Wall Mounted Abstract Textured Sculpture Seena Donneson, 2008

Description

This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist.
A textured … more This is an abstract Flora based hand made, cast sculpture done by Seena Donneson an acclaimed woman artist.
A textured abstract bronze with deep, rich patina; The sculpture is signed with the artist initials and dated. It is unique.

Seena Donneson (1924 - 2020) was an artist, sculptor and printmaker She studied at the Pratt Institute, NYC
Pratt Graphic Art Center, NYC, with Michael Ponce de Leon and the Art Students League with Morris Kantor.

Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum
Portland Art Museum
Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Select Individual Exhibitions
Danville Museum of Art, Virginia; Galerie #836, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Greenville Museum of Art, North Carolina, 1987; Benson Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.

Group Exhibitions
NY Upper East Side Outdoor Sculpture exhibition, 78; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida; CAPS Travelling Exhibition; Ben Shahn Gallery, New Jersey; "The Collograph", NY State Council on the Arts/Pratt Institute.
She was included in Group Shows Conceived and Curated by Dorothy Gillespie at the Women's Interart Center, New York, NY 1974. Artists included: Betty Parsons, Elsie Asher, Alice Baber, Minna Citron, Nancy Spero, Seena Donneson, Alice Neel, Natalie Edgar, Dorothy Gillespie, and Anita Steckel, Alice Baber, Isabel Bishop, Audrey Flack, Mary Frank, Buffie Johnson, Yvonne Jacquette, Lila Katzen, Elaine De Kooning and Joyce Weinstein.Awards
Edward Macdowell Fellowships; Creative Arts Public Svc. Grant (NY State Council on the Arts); Tamarind Lithography Workshop, LA, Ford Foundation Grant; Clayworks, NY, (Visiting Artist).

Commissions
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY; Equitable Life Insurance Co., NY; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida; Jersey City State College.

Public Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York; USIA Art in embassies (Canada, Japan, Europe); Philip Morris Int'l., New York; Citi-Bank, New York; Norfolk Museum of Art, VA.

Private Collections
Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Kaplan, California; Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Oppenheim, New Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. William heller, Florida and Massachusetts.

Her work follows in a strong feminist tradition and is reminiscent of work by Kiki Smith, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Beverly Pepper and Michele Oka Doner.

Select Exhibitions
"Art Frenzy", Modern Art Foundry, Alternate Space, Long Island City, NY
"Novices Collect", Gruber Collection, Currier Gallery, Manchester, VT; Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, FLA; Quietude Garden Gallery, East Brunswick, NJ
"Mixed Media 1983-1993" Works by Seena Donneson, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS
"Relief Sculpture", Friedheim Fine Arts, Asheville, NC
"Seena Donneson", Berkshire Art Center, Pittsfield, MA
"Seena Donneson / Relief Sculpture", Danville Museum of Fine Arts, VA
"Seena Donneson / Relief Sculpture", Greenville Museum of Art
"Seena Donneson / Mixed Media", Galerie #836, Santa Fe, NM
Caps Traveling Exhibition, NY
"Sculpture in Color", Upper East River Sculpture Exhibition, NY
"Visiting Artists", Clayworks, NY
"Refractions/Reflections" Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FLA
"The Unexpected", Elaine Benson, Bridgehampton, LI, NY
"Sculpture, Constructions, Fabrications" Elaine Starkman Gallery, NY
Museum and Public Collections
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Lyman Allyn Museum, CT
University of S. Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences, VA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Long Island University, NY
Cornell Medical, NY
Museum of Fine Art, Fort Lauderdale, FLA
Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
Radford University, VA
Lehigh University, PA
Norton Gallery of Art, W. Palm Beach, FLA
USIA Art in Embassies
Princeton University, NJ
Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby & Wood, NY
Gulf & Western Corp., NY
Washington Museum of Fine Art
C.W. Post College, NY
New School for Social Research, NY
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY
RCA Corporation, NY
World Trade Center, NY
Citibank, NY
Philip Morris International, NY
Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged
McGraw Hill Publications, NY
Equitable Life Insurance Co., NY
Xerox Corp.
Freeport Mineral
Dictaphone Corp.
First National Bank, Chicago
Clairol Collection
A. Levitt & Sons, NY
Tulsa Civic Center
Virginia Museum of Fine Art

Large Scale Installations
Boca Raton Museum of Art, FLA
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, NY
Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, FLA
Jewish Home and Hospital for the Aged, NY
Jersey City State College, NJ
Goldwater Hospital, NY
Manhattan Psychiatric Hospital, NY
Council on the Arts
Clay Works, NY; visiting artist
Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Los Angeles, CA
Edward MacDowell Colony, resident fellowships (2), Peterboro, NH
National Academy, NYC, NAWA; Sculpture
Western Washington State College, purchase prize; Drawing
National Black & White, Kansas State University; Graphics
27th Guild Hall, Long Island, NY; Graphics
HTAL 10th Annual Heckscher Museum, Long Island, NY
24th National Painters & Sculptors of NJ; Graphics less