Seena Donneson (1924-2020) was born in New York City and received her art education at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She was the recipient of two resident fellowships at the MacDowell and a grant from the Creative Artists Public Service from the New York State Council on the Arts. Donneson was a visiting artist at Clay Works, in New York and the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in California, both supported by the Ford Foundation. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Citibank, the Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Phillip Morris International, the USIA Art in Embassies Program, and Princeton University.
Discipline:
Visual Art
Seena Donneson
Discipline:
Visual Art
Region: New York, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1963, 1964
Studios
New Hampshire
Seena Donneson worked in the New Hampshire studio.
New Hampshire Studio, originally named Peterborough Studio, was given to MacDowell by Mr. and Mrs. William Schofield, Mrs. H. A. Chamberlain, Mrs. Andrew Draper, and Miss Ruth Cheney. The studio was renamed in 1943. The Gilbert Verney Foundation established an endowed maintenance fund in 1990, and a bequest in memory of MacDowell Fellow Victor Candell underwrote the…