Donna McGinnis Art
American, b. 1963
Donna McGinnis is known for her imagined land and skyscapes that bridge realism with dreamscape or Magic Realism. Soft rolling golden hills and billowing white clouds in blue or stormy skies are recurring themes in her work. McGinnis is a mid-career American artist, whose oil on canvas paintings shine with the light and warmth of nature. She is associated with The American Impressionists and Magic Realism. Her work is included in some of the nation's most prestigious museums, public institutions and private collections, and is collected worldwide. Her works are contemporary and modern in composition. Both styles of painting are developed in the same way. Neither the abstracts nor landscapes start with preconceived ideas. With the swirling of brushwork and layering of glazes, McGinnis creates her signature style of softness and painting that glows from within. The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco includes three of her drawings in its permanent collection and her work also appears in other numerous private and public collections. McGinnis has shown her work at the Oakland Museum of California, Arkansas Arts Center, Triton Museum of Art in Santa Clara, Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento and several other public spaces and galleries. McGinnis paints in the landscape and abstract genre.
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Artist: Donna McGinnis
Orange Breeze
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
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Santa Cruz
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Meeting Again
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Meeting Again' is a sophisticated abstract painting in cream, yellow and indigo, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over str...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sonoma Pond
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Sonoma Pond, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in blue, green and yellow, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil pai...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
More Secrets
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blowing West
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Celebrate no. 2
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Celebrate no. 2 is a sophisticated abstract painting in red, salmon and yellow that references a celebration, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over stretched c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Into the Water
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm Waters is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over st...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
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Canvas, Oil
Birch II
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
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Canvas, Oil
Wildflower Season
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Covering
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Under the Water
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Under the Water' is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint o...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sonoma Mountain Meadow Landscape
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful soft landscape Giclee of a glowing meadow in the Sonoma Mountains by Donna McGinnis (American, 20th century). Signed "Donna McGinnis", titled "Sonoma Mountains", and numbered "5/195", lower edge. Limited edition Giclee, high resolution long life inkjet print, Edition 5/195, printed on Epson Somerset velvet cotton rag paper. Displayed in a custom mat and wood Italian classical frame. Image size 29"H x 39"W. Paper size, 32.5"H x 42.5"W.
Donna McGinnis was born in Spokane, Washington. McGinnis grew up in an artistic family. Her mother was an artist, her grandmother a musician and her father a photographer. Drawing came naturally to her as she had very vivid memories of admiring her father’s black and white photography. These silvery prints inspired McGinnis. Through his love affair with the still image, McGinnis learned composition, chiaroscuro (light and dark tonality), form and line, in essence the basics of formal art theory. McGinnis had a childhood babysitter and mentor who taught her and her two sisters art...
Category
Early 2000s American Impressionist Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Laid Paper, Giclée
Pacific Blue
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Pacific Blue' is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean no. 3
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
"Wave no. 3" 2022 is a sophisticated abstract painting that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over stretched canvas from Donna Mc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Green River
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Green River, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in yellow, green and cream, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Remembering Memories
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
"Remembering Memories", created in 2023, is a sophisticated abstract painting in orange, cream and indigo, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reaching for You triptych
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Three individual abstract canvases that are 24 x 24 inches each to create a 24 x 72 inch triptych when hung together. Can be hung with spacing between each painting.
Donna McGinni...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Warm Waters
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Warm Waters is a beautiful abstract painting in clear blue, with touches of warmth, that references color through water, with a quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint over st...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Imagined landscape bridging realism with dreamscape. Soft rolling green hills with billowing clouds cascade across McGinnis' oil paintings that shine with the light and warmth of nat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Celebrate
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Celebrate, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in salmon, yellow and red, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer River
By Donna McGinnis
Located in Burlingame, CA
Summer River, created in 2023 is a sophisticated abstract painting in yellow, grey and black, that references landscape or water, with its quiet yet complex surface of layered oil pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Donna McGinnis Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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