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Don Munson Paintings and Drawings
Contemporary Abstract Paintings
“Donald Munson is a poet singing the joy of nature, using color and line to produce
a poem in visual terms. He has a personal style of great distinction .…
Eva Gatling,The Heckscher Museum.
“…open the gates of imagination … (D.M.) has a sophisticated Élan …"
Vito Cioffero
"(Don) … balances geometric and biomorphic elements to create exquisite formal tensions
in his paintings of flowing forms …”
Art Speak, Soho, N. Y. , Caude LeSuer
"His work assimilates, then trandsends, to illuminate abstracted essential truths with
a masterful visual language built on line and color. "
Douglas P. Clement, Take Magazine
"(Don)" - Munson ... airy ... rich-toned structural elements, ...evoking
Richard Diebenkorn's Ocean Park series ..."
Susan Boulanger, Art New England
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Modern Art
Heckscher Museum
Hopkins Art Center at Dartmouth
Western New England College
University of Massachusetts
The Society of Illustrators Museum
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Silver Circle Gallery / Haiku / Putnam, CT
The Wood Museum / Memories / South Windsor, CT
Longmeadow Cultural Council / Evolution / Fifty Years of Painting / Longmeadow, MA
Silver Circle Gallery / Panels / Putnam. CT
Western New England College / Color, Circles & Squares / Springfield, MA
Western New England College / Barns & Buildings / Springfield, MA
Charter Oak Cultural Center / Architecture & Alphabets / Hartford, CT
Langone Gallery of Fine Art / Scarsdale, NY (Twice)
Grace Gallery / Icons & Illustrations / CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
Society of Illustrators / New York, NY
Graham Gallery / New York, NY (Twice)
Heckscher Museum / Huntington, NY
Currently teaching abstract painting at the Springfield Museum School.
Painting and teaching for over sixty years.
Previously I have taught at
Parsons School of Design, Pratt University, CUNY and Westfield State.
Lecturing at the D’Amour Museum.
The next one is ‘Videre’, Yes I See.