Donald Duncan was born in 1931 in Orange, New Jersey. He first entered William and Mary College at Williamsburg,
Virginia in 1950. A year later he joined the Marines and served in the Korean War. In 1955, he re-enrolled in William
and Mary, receiving a B.F.A. in 1960.  In 1963 he received an M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico. Duncan
worked in sculpture, using lead, stone and mosaic overlay.  He died a year later at the age of 33 in collision near
Chihuahua, Mexico. “Duncan reached out for a life that was to be rich and warm and broad.  And out of that life, out
of this depth comes his art.  Art was to him the result of living, of experiencing, of knowing about things