DON DONAGHY

(1936 - 2008) b. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

American street photographer Don Donaghy, born Leonard Donald Donaghy, was a fourth-generation native of Philadelphia. He studied commercial art at the Philadelphia Museum School of Art but found himself uninterested in pursuing a career in the commercial industry. Donaghy was drawn to the streets of Philly with his camera, where he dedicated himself to street photography.

The artist collective of photographers, the New York School of Photography was a group that would help shape Donaghy's passion and philosophy. Among the artists within the hoard that he collaborated with were Robert Frank, Weegee, and Richard Avedon. Donaghy kept true to himself and created work that sought to express personal truth about life and art.

His photographs have been published in The New York School, Photographs 1936-63 and The Last Photographic Heroes: American Photographers of the Sixties and Seventies. Among being internationally exhibited for most of the 20th century to today, Donaghy's work is in the permanent collections of establishments as the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Public Library, and the Museum of Modern Art.

SELECT PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITIONS

New Acquisitions + Anonymous & Unknown, Photographs Do Not Bend Gallery, Dallas, TX 1998

Retrospective Exhibit, (B&W and Color) Naropa Insitute 1994

Group Show, Photographer from the New Tork School publication, Howard Greenberg Gallery,New York, NY 1994

One Man Show, The Trident Cafe & Gallery, Boulder, CO 1990

The New York School Photographs 1935-1963, Part III, (Don Donaghy, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Leon Levinstein, Bruce Davidson), The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1986

Dharman Arts Festival, Shambhala Training Center, Boulder, CO 1980

Otherworlds, Underworld, The Boulder Fine Arts Center, Boulder, Co 1974

One Man Show, Sun Sign Gallery, Boulder, CO 1971

Eastman Kodak Exhibit, contemporary photographs from the George Eastman House Collection, The Worlds Fair 1964-1965

Three Young Photographers Making History, (Don Donaghy, Bill Hansen and Nicholas Dean), George Eastman House, Rochester, NY (1963)

Six Photographers (Don Donaghy, Carl Chiarenza, George Krause, Bill Hansen, Jack Stuler, Nicholas Dean), George Eastman House National Travleing Exhibition (1963)

Photography ‘63, New York State Exhibition, NY sponsored by George Eastman House and New York State (1963)

Nine Neoteric photographers, Danbury Academy of Arts, Danbury, Conn. (1963)

Two young Philadelphians, Don Donaghy / George Krause, A Photographers Place Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (1962)

COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art

George Eastman House

New York City Library

Amoco Oil Corporation

PAINTING & DRAWING EXHIBITIONS

Membership Show, 1973, Boulder Art Association, Boulder, CO

Colorado Design-Craftsman Exhibition ‘73, The Boulder Potters Guild, Boulder, CO 1973

Twelfth Regional Exhibition, Boulder Art Association, Boulder, CO 1972

Colorado Designer Craftsman Exhibition ‘72, The Boulder Potters Guild, Boulder, CO 1972

The Denver Metropolitan Exhibiton, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO 1972