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Untitled

Virginia

Art

Artist and teacher Gerald (Gerry) Donato earned his MA and BS degrees from Northern Illinois University and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A long-term professor of studio art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Donato employed visual references taken from popular culture from New York's Bowery, Italy, and Paris and the Richmond art scene to create his paintings. His appropriation of an early Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse, known as "Steamboat Willie" renamed "Mr. Man" by Donato, pops up routinely, as seen in Untitled. Rendered in simple gestures, often, Mr. Man is paired with a mysterious feminine muse the artist calls "Moon-face."

Gerald Donato (American, 1941-2010)

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TAU_ART_000129

2010.002

1982

Taubman Museum of Art

painting (visual works)

oil

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. University Libraries

Taubman Museum of Art (Repository)

Gift of Victor and Betty Kord