Donna J. Neary
Throughout her long career, artist Donna J. Neary moved easily between painting portraits, book and magazine covers, commercial illustration, children's books, military subjects, and complex historical paintings.

Donna’s artwork has appeared on the covers of numerous books, from historical topics to children’s books, as well as on the covers of national magazines such as the Washington Post Magazine, The New Republic magazine, the U.S. Naval Institute’s Proceedings, Common Cause magazine, Leatherneck magazine, America's Civil War, over 25 covers of the Marine Corps Gazette, and many others. Donna painted award-winning covers for Regardie's magazine and for Mortgage Banking magazine and her art has illustrated articles in Smithsonian and Washingtonian magazines. Several of her cover illustrations were selected for publication in Communication Arts Illustration Annuals. Donna J. Neary’s art appears within the pages of Time-Life Books Enchanted World book series, their Civil War book series Echoes of Glory, and other of their publications. Fourteen of her artworks were commissioned by Boston Publishing especially for their Vietnam Experience book series.
The 1994 Official White House Christmas Ornament carries Donna’s art and her painting Even To Hell Itself is the official painting for the North Anna Battlefield Park in Virginia. Her early historical art was published in both British and American journals and periodicals and in 1973 Donna was elected a Fellow of the Company of Military Historians. In the 1980's Donna was included in an exhibit of women in commercial art at NOVA/Northern Virginia Community College and throughout 2012 several of her artworks were displayed in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. as part of the “Fly Marines! Centennial of the Marine Corps Aviation” exhibit.

Paintings by the artist hang in the Pentagon and the Commandant's House in Washington D. C. and reside in the collections of the U.S. Cavalry Museum, the U. S. Army Medical Museum, the U. S. National Park Service, The National Guard Bureau Heritage Collection, the U. S. Navy Art Collection, the National Museum of the Marine Corps, the art collections of the Scots Guards and the Queen’s Own Highlanders in the United Kingdom, as well as other public and private collections in both the U.S. and the U.K.

While pursuing her career as a free-lance artist, Donna also served for over twenty years as an artist in the Marine Corps Reserves. Among her many assignments as a field and combat artist she participated in Joint Exercises in the remote mountains of South Korea, NATO Exercises above the Arctic Circle (twice), and in 1993 she deployed to famine-ravaged and civil-war-torn Somalia during Operation Restore Hope. Artwork by the artist from these and other assignments resides in the art collection of the National Museum of the Marine Corps.

During the mid-1970's and the early 1980's artist Donna J. Neary maintained her studio in the Torpedo Factory Art Center on the waterfront in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia. Currently, she maintains her studio in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

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