During the last two years he has been working on a series of watercolors based on the great rock wall blasted to build an approach road to the new Penobscot Narrows Bridge that connects Prospect, Maine with Verona Island along Route 1. Discreet portions of the wall serve as points of departure for these paintings which interpret freely the form and color of the native stone.
Both an artist and an architect, Mallow’s studies were at the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1946 – 47), the Cooper Union (1947 – 50) and the Yale University School of Architecture (1950 -52). He has pursued a double career. His watercolors are included in corporate and private collections while his architectural designs have been published in the U.S. and abroad.
Mallow first came to Blue Hill fifty years ago when his wife, cellist Barbara Stein Mallow, joined the faculty at Kneisel Hall. He has painted in the Blue Hill area these fifty years and the work has been exhibited at galleries in Blue Hill, Deer Isle, Northeast Harbor, Rockport and at the Farnsworth Library and Museum in 1973. In New York City the watercolors were represented by the David Findlay Galleries and the Coe Kerr Gallery and were described by Arts Magazine as “amazing in their ability to meld precision and spontaneity of forms; the control of a superb craftsman.”
Architectural work may be seen at www.donaldmallow.com. The exhibit will be available for viewing during library hours starting July 2nd. For more information, call the library at 374-5515.
