J. T. Donovan is a fine art painter and carpenter best known for his geometric oil paintings that juxtapose carefully related colors mixed by the artist. His non-objective color theory work, painted on shaped canvases that conform to his color compositions, is informed and inspired by Richard Paul Lohse as well as the Gestalt theory utilized by Minimalist sculptors Robert Morris and Tony Smith, among others.

Born in Brooklyn, Donovan received a Bachelor of Fine Art from Parsons School of Design, where his training included a course on principles of color first taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany before World War II.