Don Quaintance

Don Quaintance is a graphic designer, author, and editor based in Houston. He has designed more than one hundred and seventy art-related exhibition catalogues and monographs, including retrospectives for Barnett Newman and Arshile Gorky (2002 & 2010), Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, John Chamberlain, and Alberto Burri (1997, 2003, 2012 & 2015), Max Ernst (2006), and Victor Brauner and Agnes Martin (2001 & 2002). For art historian Leo Steinberg, he designed "Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper" (2001).

Quaintance’s writings include essays for "Peggy Guggenheim and Frederick Kiesler" (2004) and "The Museum of Non-Objective Painting" (2009). He co-designed and contributed an essay to "Joseph Cornell/Marcel Duchamp: In Resonance" (1999), and designed "Marcel Duchamp: Fountain" (1989) and "Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés" (2009), the last of which received the George Wittenborn Award from the Art Libraries Society of North America.

He edited, authored, and designed the monograph "Gray Foy: Drawings 1941–1975" (2018). His latest book is a major monograph, "Duchamp in California: Walter Hopps Curates a Retrospective" (2025).