While at MacDowell, Mary McDonnell started work on large-scale abstract oil paintings on wood, and a series of ink drawings on Japanese rice paper. The drawings and paintings will be shown within the year at The James Graham and Sons Gallery in New York, and at the Miller Block Gallery in Boston.
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Mary McDonnell
Discipline:
Visual Art – painting
Region: Eldred, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991, 2007
More:
www.marymcdonnellart.com
Studios
Heinz
Mary McDonnell worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…