David allan peters biography of donald

          DAVID ALLAN PETERS (b..

          David Allan Peters, whose work is on view at Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe through April 19th, has been building heavily layered paintings that he carves into.

        1. David Allan Peters (b.
        2. DAVID ALLAN PETERS (b.
        3. David Allan Peters works with between twenty and thirty colors of paint in the studio which he mixes in plastic buckets, often introducing other.
        4. PETERS, DAVID ALLAN Was born on March 16, in Rochester, New York.

          5. David Herbert Donald (1920-2009)

          Winner of two Pulitzer Prizes for biography; life member of the AHA

          David Herbert Donald’s untimely death on May 17, 2009, gives us an opportunity to reflect on the virtues of one of the most accomplished historians of his generation.

          His father was a farmer and his mother a former schoolteacher when David was born in 1920 in Goodman, Mississippi. He completed his degree in history and sociology at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi, before attending graduate school at both the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and—briefly—the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

          He earned first his master’s degree from the University of Illinois in 1942 and then completed his doctorate in history in 1945 under the supervision of the renowned Lincoln scholar, James G. Randall.

          Donald’s economy of prose and dense detail won him early notice, especially with his first published article, “The Scalawags