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Donald C. Mallow
(December 28, 1928 - April 5, 2023) American architect and Artist who spent his life in New York City, New Jersey, and Maine.

EDUCATION

HIs studies started at the Brooklyn Museum Art School (1946-1947) and the Cooper Union (1947-1950). He then went on to the Yale University Department of Architecture (1950-1952) where he received his architectural degree.

CAREER

A life divided between architecture and painting.

His architectural work, modern buildings combining steel, concrete and large glass areas with timeless materials such as stone and wood was widely published in the USA and abroad in such publications as the New York Times, The Architectural Record, House Beautiful Magazine, A Treasury of Contemporary Houses by McGraw Hill (cover house), and The Kitchen Book, among many others. As an artist his paintings have been widely shown at many galleries and museums. Among them, the David Findlay Gallery, The Farnsworth Museum, National Academy of Design, The Jersey City Museum, Coe Kerr Gallery, the Birmingham Museum of Fine Arts, and the Leighton Gallery. HIs paintings can also be found in private and corporate collections

PERSONAL LIFE

He was married for 65 years to the cellist, Barbara Stein Mallow. They met while both attended Yale University. Within ten days of meeting each other they decided to get married and wound up spending an entire life together. They had two children, Eric and Jeanne. After moving from New York City they moved to Leonia New Jersey and had a summer house in Blue Hill, Maine where his wife is on the faculty at the renowned chamber music school, Kneisel Hall.

Maine greatly influenced, not only his painting, predominantly watercolor, but greatly influenced his architecture. In his words: The years of architectural discipline and concerns of massing, space, perspective, light and shade fused with the painter in a response to those characteristics so much a part of Maine.