Donald F. Witherstine

Donald Frederick Witherstine was an American painter, printmaker and gallery director, born in Herkimer, New York. He studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and was the director of Shore Studios and Gallery 200. The latter hosted Forum 49 in 1949. The summer program in Provincetown, Mass, was dedicated to the arts and proved to be highly popular. It focused largely on the avant-garde.