Daisy McDonald - Painter, Sculptor

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About the Artist

Daisy McDonald, Artist and Sculptor was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, and now resides in Kingfisher, Oklahoma after living many years in Hot Springs, Arkansas with husband M. Nick McDonald. (Now deceased, Nick McDonald is noted as the Dallas Police Officer who captured and arrested Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.) A member of the Portrait Institute (Washington, Connecticut), McDonald graduated from Texas Midwestern University and attended the Pasadena Playhouse School of Acting in California. Since 1983, she has taught art classes and won national recognition for her work in both painting and sculpting media. She has served as President of the Board of Directors of the Hot Springs Art Center.

McDonald's paintings in a variety of media are on display in numerous private collections and public venues. Commissions include:

St. Joseph Hospital (Hot Springs, Arkansas) McDonald's paintings hang in patient rooms and in the obstetrics areas.
Hotelier Hill Wheatley, Hot Springs, Portrait located in the lobby of the Hot Springs Downtowner Hotel.
Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. (Buffalo Bills Football Team owner) and Mary McLean of Florida commissioned a painting of an Racing Scene from the Oaklawn Race Course for President Clinton's mother and step-father, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Kelly.
Many of McDonald's racing paintings are owned and displayed by prominent businesses, and her portraiture is in high demand.

Daisy McDonald's life is a kaleidoscope of interesting people and surprising artistic output. The voice of her Great Aunt Lucille LaVerne was featured as the Queen and the Witch in the original Walt Disney production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." Her daughter and son-in-law operate the successful Neufeld Knolls Goat Farm, producing goat milk products and prize animals in competitive venues. McDonald is a protégé of celebrated Chinese American sculptor Long Hua Xu, and works in her home studio in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.

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