OUR FEATURED ARTIST
DONALD BRACKEN
8 Lower River Road,
West Cornwall, CT 06796
Good News Cafe Donald Bracken price list
New Dawn, Out of the Ashes
$ 11,000
Nocturne
$5,500
Moth and the Lost Prophet
$8,000
Farm in Dirt #4
$3,500
Unknown Figure in a Field
$3,500
Farm in Dirt #2
$3,500
New Dawn
$3,000
Winter at Twilight
$3,000
Wetlands
$10,000
Other Side of the Sound
$12,000
Unknown River
$12,000
Unknown Figure at Dawn
$6,000
Happy Dog ( Kirby)
$3,600
Beach Daze
$5,000
Meet Me at the Bridge
$6,000
Beach Daze #2
$2,500
Where Do We Go from Here
$6,000
Swimming from Havana
$6,000
Fleeting Moment
$2,000
Beach Daze at Sunset
$7,000
Walking the Dog
$8,00
A Night in Antigua
$1,300
A Night in Antigua #2
$1,300
Happy Hour
$900
Midsummer Night
$6,000
Primum Non Nocere
$3,500
Naturalis Ordo
$3,500
Dirt Farm #3
$800
Dirt Farm #4
$800
Selected Shows
2022
Mattatuck Museum, UnPlugged: New England Artists Depict Trees, invitational group show, December 2022–February 2023
Five Points Gallery, 10-Year Anniversary Invitational Show Group Show, December
New Britain Museum, Nor’Easter, 52nd Annual Juried Show, August
Mattatuck Museum, The Village Project, with collaborator Denise Minnerly, Waterbury, CT, March 9–May 8
Mattatuck Museum, Mixmaster Juried Exhibition, Viewers Choice Prize–Favorite Painting Award, Waterbury, CT, January 30–March 6
Washington Art Association, Members Juried Show, First Prize for Painting, January
2021
Five Points Gallery, Reflecting on September 11, 20th Anniversary Invitational Show, curated by
Donald Bracken and including Bracken paintings, Torrington, CT, August 26–September 26
Five Points Gallery 2021 Juried Exhibition, Torrington, CT, July 2–August 14
2020
Five Points Gallery, Paying Attention, group show, Torrington, CT, June 5–July 11
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Winter Nocturne, Hudson, NY, January–February
2019
Katonah Museum, The Edge Effect, International Juried Exhibition, Katonah, NY, July–Sept
Creative Arts Workshop, The Village Project, with collaborator Denise Minnerly, and show of my paintings in gallery, New Haven, CT, Feb–March
2018
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, 2018 BAA Biennial (juried show), The Village Project, with collaborator Denise Minnerly, Pittsfield, MA, October;
juror: Caitlin Tucker-Melvin, Visual Arts Manager, MASS MOCA New Britain Museum, Nor’Easter, 48th Annual Members Juried Exhibition, New Britain, CT, June–July
2017
Carrie Haddad Gallery (group show), Hudson, NY, December–January
Norfolk Library (solo show), Norfolk, CT, June
2016
Ober Gallery, Inner Landscapes (solo show), Kent, CT
Washington Art Association (juried show), Washington Depot, CT
Indian Mountain School (juried show), Lakeville, CT; won best in show ($5,000)
Mattatuck Museum (juried show), Waterbury, CT
New Britain Museum, Nor’Easter, 46th Annual Members Juried Exhibition, New Britain, CT;
curated by Judy McElhone
2015
Five Points Gallery, Damascus Road (solo show—east gallery), Torrington, CT
Katonah Museum, Line Describing a Cone, two pieces in tri-state juried exhibition, Katonah, NY; curated by Eva Respini (MoMA curator)
Lionheart Gallery (solo show), Pound Ridge, NY
Norwalk Community College, The Village Project, with collaborator Denise Minnerly, Norwalk, CT
2014
Five Points Gallery, In and Of the Land (group show), Torrington, CT
Washington Art Association (juried show), Washington, CT; 2nd prize–painting
2013
Lionheart Gallery, Winter Dreams (solo show), Pound Ridge, NY
Washington Art Association (juried show), Washington, CT; 1st prize–sculpture
2012
New Arts Gallery (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2011
New York State Museum, Reflecting on September 11, 2001 (3 paintings in group show), Albany, NY
Connecticut Commission for the Arts, installation (group show), Hartford, CT
Washington Art Association (juried show); jurors prize, Washington, CT
2010
New Arts Gallery, Earth Variations (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2009
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery (gallery-closing group show), Kent, CT
Carrie Haddad Gallery, Landscapes (two-person show), Hudson, NY
Washington Art Association (solo show), Washington, CT
2008
CT Commission for the Arts, Touring CT exhibition (group show), Hartford, CT
New Arts Gallery, Views from the Flood Plain (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2007
New Arts Gallery, Memoriam: Paintings from the WTC (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2006
New Arts Gallery, Three Decades of Painting (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2005
City Lights Gallery, New Landscape (solo show), Bridgeport, CT
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council at CB Richard Ellis (group show), NY, NY
2004
New Arts Gallery, Arbitrary Rivers (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2002
New Arts Gallery, View from the 91st Floor (solo show), Litchfield, CT
2000
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery (three-person show), Kent, CT
1999
World Trade Center, LMCC: World View Retrospective Exhibition, NY, NY
1998
The Studio School, Vertigo (group show), NY, NY
1997
The Federal Reserve Bank (group show), NY, NY
1992
Mattatuck Museum, New Worlds (invitational show), Waterbury, CT
1991
Mattatuck Museum, Connecticut Artists (juried show), Waterbury, CT
Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery, Remembrance of Things Past, Kent, CT
1987
Stephen Haller Fine Arts (solo show), NY, NY
Aldrich Museum, State of the Arts (group show), Ridgefield, CT
1986
Wexler Gallery (group show), NY, NY
Almquist Gallery, Winter Dreams (solo show), New Preston, CT
1985
Baruch College, Art Against Apartheid (group show), Brooklyn, NY
Wexler Gallery, Swimmers at Ground Zero, (solo show), NY, NY
1984
Le Boit, Swimmers at Ground Zero (solo show; opened Sept 11), NY, NY
Attack Gallery, Swimmers at Ground Zero (solo show), Los Angeles, CA
ABC No Rio Gallery, Art Against Apartheid (group show), NY, NY
Kamikaze Club, Puerilism (group show), NY, NY
1983
Vassar College (solo show), Poughkeepsie, NY
1981
Northern Connecticut Art Association (juried show), Winsted, CT; best in show
Awards and Fellowships
2022
Mattatuck Museum juried show viewers’ choice, first prize for painting
Ferguson-Sherr-Rea Award for painting, Washington Art Association, $1,000
2021
Connecticut Commission for the Arts project grant, $5,000
2020
Martha Boschen Porter Foundation grant, $5,000
2019
Puffin Foundation Grant, $1,000
2018
Connecticut Commission for the Arts Regis Grant, with collaborator Denis Minnerly
2015
Best in Show, Indian Mountain School, juried show, $5,000
LandEscape Art Review cover artist (details under Publications)
2014
Martha Boschen Porter Foundation grant, $5,000
Ferguson-Sherr-Rea Award, Washington Art Association juried show, Washington, CT
2013
Puffin Foundation grant $900
Ferguson-Sherr-Rea Award, Washington Art Association juried show
2011
Connecticut Commission for the Arts grant $1,000
Jurors prize, Washington Art Association
1997
Artist-in-residence fellowship, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, World Trade Center, NY, NY
1985
Robert C. Scull Foundation for the Arts grant
1984
Artist-in-residence fellowship, Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony
1982
Artist-in-residence fellowship, Edna St. Vincent Millay Colony
1981
Best in show, NCAA juried show, Winsted, CT
Honorable mention, Fuller Art Museum, national juried show, Brockton, MA
Selected Bibliography and Publications
Tracy O’Shaughnessy, Art Review: Fateful Day Recounted in Exhibit at Five Points Gallery, September 22, 2021.
LandEscape Art Review Fall 2015 special edition, featured cover artist chosen in international
competition; also published in Art Habens, special issue, June 2016.
Craig LaMoult, “Artist Who Painted from WTC: 10 Years Later,” NPR news, WSHU, Fairfield, CT, September 7, 2011, www.wshu.org/news/story.php?ID=9080
Jane Roy Brown, “From the Field, From the Tower,” Litchfield Magazine, September–October, 2011,
www.townvibe.com/Litchfield/September-October-2011/From-the-Tower/
Tracy O’Shaughnessy, “Putting the Land Back into Landscape,” Waterbury Republican-American, July 7, 2010.
Faith Middleton, Peabody Museum, “Don Bracken, Neighborhoods,” WNPR, CT, April 14, 2008.
Jamie Ferris, “From Dust to Art,” Litchfield County Times, March 21, 2008, pages 1 & 2j.
Tracy O’Shaughnessy, “Evocative Solitude Shown In Litchfield,” Waterbury Republican-American, April 14, 2006.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, “Site Matters,” LMCC Artist Residency Program in the World Trade Center, 1997–2001, pub. 2005.
Tracey O’Shaughnessy, “Forewarning: Cornwall Painter Says World Trade Center Visit Sparked
Apocalyptic Vision,” Waterbury Republican-American, Sept. 11, 2002, section D, pages 1 & 2, color photos.
Margaret DeMarino, “Water Colors His Vision,” The Sunday Republican Magazine, Waterbury Republican, January 18, 1987.
“Swimmers at Ground Zero,” Galleries Magazine no. 7, November 1985.
Peter Clothier, “Art Seen,” L.A. Weekly, June–July 1985.
Kristine McKenna, “The Art Galleries,” Los Angeles Times, June 28, 1984, section VI.
Selected Collections
- Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY
- Federal Reserve Bank, New York, NY
- Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY
- Connecticut Artist Collection, State of CT
- Raymond Learsy, New York, NY
- Thierry Morin, London, UK
- Elizabeth Rea, Washington, CT
- Robert Pittman, Katonah, NY
- Tim Prentice, West Cornwall, CT
- Robert Scull, Warren, CT
- Jerry Wexler, New York, NY
- Laurie Colwin, New York, NY
- Peter Kauff, Bethlehem, CT
- William Steig, Boston, MA
- Robert S. & Marty Rubin, New York, NY
- Carol Peck, Woodbury, CT
- Francine Ellman, Santa Monica, CA
- Mr. & Mrs. Nelson-Slater, Taconic, CT
- Paul Wexler, Jersey City, NJ
- Martha Boschen Porter, Lime Rock, CT
- Eliot Osborn, Salisbury, CT
- Philippe Selendy, New York, NY
- Rod Ober, Kent, CT
- Mara Fizdale, Sharon, CT
- Ian Ingersoll, West Cornwall, CT
- Richard Schlesinger, West Cornwall, CT