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John McDonald
2301 24th Av.
Gulfport, MS 39501


(228) 547-5178  cell
(601) 956-8292

This is a list of materials I a familiar with, any substitution will suffice, thank you for your help.

Arches drawing papers

Oils-brandnames:
Rembrandt- Burnt Umber, Burnt Sienna, Cadnium Red Med., Naples Yellow deep,

Holbein- Viridian, Yellow Orchre, Ultra Marine Blue, Ivory Black, Olive Green

Winsor & Newton- Alizarin Crimson, Blue Black, Cadnium Red, Cadnium Yellow deep, Indian Yellow

Old Holland- Green Umber, Mars Orange Red, Cold Grey, Sepia Extra

Permalba- white

Brushes

Kolinsky Sables:

Round sizes 2, 6, 10

Bristle (chunking) Robert Simmons:

Flat sizes 2,6,12

Round 2, 6, 12

Fan Blender 10

Filberts 6, 10

Giant Round Sable

ELLEN BATTEL STOCKEL AWARD (1975) Yale Summer School for Art & Music.
BACHELOR OF FINE ARTS (1976) University of Georgia
MASTER OF FINE ARTS (1978) Yale University
Four STATE OR NATIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS since 1988-
Three Mississippi Arts Commission Grants and one from the Southern Arts Federation
Featured in ART IN MISSISSIPPI 1790-1980, By P.C. Black
(Published by Mississippi Heritage Society, 1998)
OPEN STUDIO PRESS AWARD Cambridge, MA (Published Series – New Paintings)
Landmark mural “PROMENADE” Bay St. Louis, MS (Completed 1997) Funded by Mississippi Arts
Commission (an approximately 90’ x 15’ trompe l’oeil historical narrative of “The Bay”)
INSTRUCTOR of DRAWING and PAINTING - College & University Levels Periodically since 1978 -
University of New Haven, University of Southern Mississippi, William Carey College, and Pearl River
Junior College
Exhibited widely including Mississippi Museum of Art, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, George Ohr
Museum of Art; Still-Zinzel Gallery, Heriad-Cimino Gallery – New Orleans, LA; and the Painting Center-
New York , New York
Over the years reviewed in a host of newspapers and periodicals, including Atlantic Constitution; New Art Examiner, May 1992; Art Papers; and Southern Quarterly.
Landscapes and portraits in numerous private and public collections including, Mississippi Museum of Art;
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art; The Peat Marwick Collection, Stanford and Melba Bowman, Jackson, MS;
Jerry and Martha O’Keefe, Biloxi, MS.
Recently elected honorary board member – The Arts Hancock County Mississippi
Lead auction artist for the George Ohr Museum, Biloxi, Mississippi twice since 1999.
Congressman Gene Taylor, Mississippi, commissioned a portrait of Marine Corporal Roy Wheat,
the only Mississippian to have received the Congressional Medal of Honor from the Vietnam War
Worked in art installations at the Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Rothko Foundation and
Pace Gallery during a five year stay in New York City (1980-1985).
A Coast native (Born 1952 in Gulfport, Mississippi). I returned in 1985 and have maintained full-time studios in
Bay St. Louis at 126 Main Street for 18 years and recently in Gulfport at 2301 24 th Avenue until Hurricane Katrina caused me to evacuate.

Caveat – The night before Katrina hit in a kind of “Sophie’s Choice”, I retrieved my negative files, one 35 mm camera and a few prints of Promenade.