Don Donaghy (born Leonard Donald Donaghy in

Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...

; 2 November 1936 – 23 July 2008) was a member of the

New York school of photography The New York school of photography is identified by Jane LivingstonA potted CV of Livingston may be found in, the Getty Research Institute, 2011. as "a loosely defined group of photographers who lived and worked in New York City during the 1930s, 1 ...

. Donaghy studied at the

Philadelphia Museum School of Art The Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art (PMSIA), also referred to as the School of Applied Art, was chartered by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on February 26, 1876, as both a museum and teaching institution. This was in response to t ...

after which he pursued

street photography Street photography (also sometimes called candid photography) is photography conducted for art or enquiry that features unmediated chance encounters and random incidents within public places. Although there is a difference between street and ca ...

in Philadelphia and New York City using a Leica 35mm camera. His first exhibition ''Two Young Philadelphians: Don Donaghy & George Krause,'' was held in 1962. Donaghy's first published work was a re-creation of this exhibition in the Fall 1962 issue of Contemporary Photographer, titled same as the show.George Krause, Anne Tucker (1992) George Krause: A Retrospective, , page 19Contemporary Photographer (1962): Two Young Philadelphians: Don Donaghy & George Krause
(this Google Books entry for catalog includes exhibition info) The landmark exhibition and publication ''The New York School, Photographs 1936-63'', by Jane Livingston, includes a selection of Donaghy's photographs. Donaghy is featured in "The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies", by Gilles Mora. In addition to photography, Donaghy worked as a film editor and a cameraman. While living in Boulder, CO, he was also a construction foreman. He died on July 23, 2008.

Publications with contributions by Donaghy

*''The New York School, Photographs 1936-63.'' . By Jane Livingston. *''The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies.'' . By Gilles Mora.

Exhibitions

* Three Photographers: Nicholas Dean, Bill Hanson, Don Donaghy (Rochester, NY, Aug 21 to Oct 21, 1963)
(Web page with instructions for telnet access to database; database lists holdings of Don Donaghy photographs by Hallmark Photographic Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York Public Library, George Eastman House, also cites exhibitions in 1963-64) * Photography 63/An International Exhibition (Syracuse NY, Rochester NY and Fort Wayne IN, August 1963 to February 1964) (George Eastman House database) * Six Photographers I (Contemporary Photographers I) (Rochester NY, 1964) (George Eastman House database)
Photographs Do Not Bend Past Show Listing
(Oct 27 to Dec 2, 2000 show with

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Gallery Sink, Previous Exhibitions
(Sep 27 to Nov 29, 2002 group show)

(2006 show with Benjamin Abramowitz and

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Yancey Richardson Gallery > Past Exhibitions > 2006
(Oct 27 to Nov 25, 2006 show) * Chance Encounters: Photographs from the Collection of Norman Carr and Carolyn Kinder Carr ( orcoran Gallery of Art 2008)
Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940–1959
Milwaukee Art Museum, 2010

Collections

Donaghy's work is held in the following permanent collections: *

Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art was an art museum in Washington, D.C., United States, that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, a part of the George Washington University. Overview The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design ...

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It plays a major role in developing and collecting modern art, and is often identified as one of ...

George Eastman House The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as ''George Eastman House, International Museum of Photography and Film'', the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in ...

New York Public Library The New York Public Library (NYPL) is a public library system in New York City. With nearly 53 million items and 92 locations, the New York Public Library is the second largest public library in the United States (behind the Library of Congress ...

Hallmark Photographic Collection The Hallmark Photographic Collection was amassed by Hallmark Cards, Inc. and donated to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri in December 2005. At the time of donation, the collection consisted of 6,500 images by 900 artists, wit ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

MMA (2005), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Annual Report for the Year 2004-2005, p. 25
(Donaghy work listed as photographic accession in 2005) *

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum located in San Francisco, California. A nonprofit organization, SFMOMA holds an internationally recognized collection of modern and contemporary art, and was ...

SFMOMA Works by Don Donaghy
(Works acquired 2012) *

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Build ...

MFAH (2008), Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Annual Report 2006-2007, pp. 70, 74
(Donaghy works listed as photographic accessions in 2006 and 2007) *

Smithsonian American Art Museum The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution. Together with its branch museum, the Renwick Gallery, SAAM holds o ...

Don Donaghy / American Art
(Works acquired 2013

References

* * *"Boulder Daily Camera"
(July 25, 2008): obituary

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Donaghy, Don 20th-century American photographers Street photographers 2008 deaths University of the Arts (Philadelphia) alumni 1936 births Artists from Pennsylvania