Don Connolly is
a widely recognized Canadian aviation artist with work represented in a
number of major museum collections including the Canada War and Aviation
Museums in Ottawa, the National Air Force Museum in Trenton, and in
numerous other provincial and military museums, both in Canada and the
USA. His work has also been seen frequently as prints, cover paintings
and/or illustrations in books and in magazines such as Aviation History,
Aviation Week and Space Technology and (Cdn.) Airforce; and in 1982 a
book of his earlier aviation paintings was published under the title
Painting Planes.
He
has now been painting as a professional for 25 years, and numbers his
output of original (aviation) works as being "well over 2000".
Commissions are a specialty, and now consume most of his time at the
easel, although his works can still be found on display at several
galleries.
The artist has been one of the key figures in the formation and
administration of the Canadian Aviation Artists Association, which in
2002 was honoured by the Canadian Aviation Hall of Fame for its
contributions to preserving the history of Canadian aviation. He is
also a long time active member of the American Society of Aviation
Artists, and of the Canadian Aviation Historical Association. He is a
frequent contributor and prize winner at major shows in both the US and
Canada, and in 2003 was invited by the USAF Museum to display ten works
in its first show of international aviation art, as the official
representative for Canada.
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