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One ticket, three experiences — your visit to Julia Child: A Recipe for Life includes access to view SEER and All the Restaurants of Napa Valley.
John Donohue: All the Restaurants of Napa Valley
April 18, 2025 – March 8, 2026
In the MAC’s Lobby Gallery, a display of the distinctive sketches of the artist John Donohue, with limited edition prints for sale to benefit the Museum’s arts and education programs.
A Delicious Visual Journey Through Napa Valley’s Culinary Landscape.
Don’t miss Jess Lander’s Feature on “All the Restaurants of Napa Valley” in the 8/3/22 San Francisco Chronicle!
See the collected works John Donohue created in the Napa Valley on display, and purchase prints to celebrate your own memories of great nights of fine dining, Napa-style. A portion of proceeds of print sales and auctioned works has been generously donated by the artist to benefit the Museum’s arts education programs. View and purchase Napa Valley images here: All the Restaurants of Napa Valley.
Former New Yorker editor, erstwhile cartoonist, and self-taught artist John Donohue, who has famously sketched “all the restaurants” of Paris, New York and London in distinctive hand-drawn style, turned his pen to capture Napa Valley’s most memorable restaurants in 2022. He returns to Napa Valley in 2025 for a live drawing event followed by a spirited conversation about the allure of restaurants, sketching as a practice, completest projects, biting off more than you can chew.
John’s prints are available for purchase at The MAC and in the online store, and a portion of proceeds generously donated by the artist to benefit the museum’s nonprofit arts education programs.
About John Donohue
Donohue began creating whimsical drawings of New York City restaurant facades in 2017. Since then, he has completed more than 1,000 illustrations, many of them posted on his website: alltherestaurants.com. Donohue finishes all drawings in his signature one-color style, often embellished with just one distinctive accent color taken from an awning or design element of the restaurant, and sells signed, limited-edition prints. Sales of his works have benefited restaurant workers and other non-profit organizations, including the Napa Valley Museum. He has also penned three books collecting images of his works: All The Restaurants in New York City (Abrams, 2019) and A Table in Paris (Abrams, 2021) and A Taste of London (Abrams 2023). His first book Man with a Pan was a New York Times bestseller, in 2011. He lives with his family in Brooklyn and draws at least twice a day.