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Donald Edgar Boyd BIOGRAPHY
1934 Sparta, Ohio - 2015 Mount Vernon, Ohio. Known for: Multi-media sculpture, fluxus works.
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The following obituary was published in the Mount Vernon News (Ohio), 5 Oct. 2015, Web . Donald E. Boyd, 81, of 8357 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, passed away Oct. 3, 2015, at Mount Vernon Health... Read full biography
The following obituary was published in the Mount Vernon News (Ohio), 5 Oct. 2015, Web . Donald E. Boyd, 81, of 8357 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, passed away Oct. 3, 2015, at Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by loving family and friends. He was born Feb. 20, 1934, in... Read full biography
The following obituary was published in the Mount Vernon News (Ohio), 5 Oct. 2015, Web . Donald E. Boyd, 81, of 8357 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, passed away Oct. 3, 2015, at Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by loving family and friends. He was born Feb. 20, 1934, in Sparta, the son of C.W. and Correl (Downing) Boyd. Don not only lived a colorful life full of art and humor, but taught thousands more how to live that kind of life for themselves. Don was a graduate of... Read full biography
The following obituary was published in the Mount Vernon News (Ohio), 5 Oct. 2015, Web . Donald E. Boyd, 81, of 8357 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, passed away Oct. 3, 2015, at Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by loving family and friends. He was born Feb. 20, 1934, in Sparta, the son of C.W. and Correl (Downing) Boyd. Don not only lived a colorful life full of art and humor, but taught thousands more how to live that kind of life for themselves. Don was a graduate of Sparta High School. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 1956, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard University in 1961, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1966. Don taught art throughout his... Read full biography
The following obituary was published in the Mount Vernon News (Ohio), 5 Oct. 2015, Web . Donald E. Boyd, 81, of 8357 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, passed away Oct. 3, 2015, at Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by loving family and friends. He was born Feb. 20, 1934, in Sparta, the son of C.W. and Correl (Downing) Boyd. Don not only lived a colorful life full of art and humor, but taught thousands more how to live that kind of life for themselves. Don was a graduate of Sparta High School. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 1956, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard University in 1961, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1966. Don taught art throughout his career, including at Kenyon College, South Dakota State University, the University of South Dakota, Muskingum College... Read full biography
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About Donald Edgar Boyd
Biography from Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
The following obituary was published in the Mount Vernon News (Ohio), 5 Oct. 2015, Web
Donald E. Boyd, 81, of 8357 Martinsburg Road, Mount Vernon, passed away Oct. 3, 2015, at Mount Vernon Health and Rehabilitation Center surrounded by loving family and friends. He was born Feb. 20, 1934, in Sparta, the son of C.W. and Correl (Downing) Boyd. Don not only lived a colorful life full of art and humor, but taught thousands more how to live that kind of life for themselves.
Don was a graduate of Sparta High School. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 1956, a Master of Arts in Teaching from Harvard University in 1961, and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa in 1966.
Don taught art throughout his career, including at Kenyon College, South Dakota State University, the University of South Dakota, Muskingum College, and the Mount Vernon Nazarene University.
His artwork has been featured in numerous gallery exhibits across the U.S. and overseas. He has been listed in Who’s Who in American Art since 1973. In 1975, Don received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to produce a public television series promoting his modern and bold art community. Also in 1975, Don was named the director of the Fluxus West art movement and served until 2015, inspiring generations of young artists to carry on the Fluxus movement.
He is survived by his loving wife of 16 years, Karen Boyd; two sisters, Jean Hendrickson of Centerburg and Mary (Wetzel) Thompson of Mount Vernon; three stepbrothers, Richard (Rosa) Robertson of Mount Vernon, Harold (Louise) Robertson of Mount Vernon, and Jessie (Barbara) Robertson of Marengo; four children, Bentley of Virginia, Laura (Bob) Robertson-Boyd of Bexley, Jonathan (Amy) Boyd of Alabama, and Beth (Shaun) Rainey of Illinois; eight grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
Submitted by Deborah Tear Haynes, Data Documentation Manager and Cataloguer
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755
Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College has the following:
Donald Edgar Boyd, Museum Case, wood and Plexiglas case containing wrapped objects, 1978-1983, Gift of Kenneth Friedman, GM.983.36.1
Fluxus works by Donald Edgar Boyd, Gift of the Friedman Family, GM.986.80.16-19.