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Donati's works express the distinctive qualities of both powerful art movements while defying easy categorization. Across seven decades, Donati explored the materiality of the mythic and the eternal in his richly layered and textured paintings that channeled the subconscious and dared to reach toward the divine.

Though born in Milan, Italy, Donati’s eclectic interests and insatiable intellect readily carried him farther afield to Paris – and including in 1934 to Arizona and New Mexico, where he lived among Native American peoples and deeply engaged with their artifacts and cultures. The …