Jean Donner received her bachelors degree from Wilson Teachers College, Washington, D. C., in 1939, and was given her first solo exhibition by the College that year. Further study and training were taken at the Hill School of Sculpture, the school of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and Catholic University of America, all in Washington, D. C.; Cornell University, Ithaca, New York; and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Her teachers at these institutions were Clara Hill, Hans Schuler, Heinz Warneke, and Fritz Janschka. She executed commissions for Artists Equity, Philadelphia, and the Fine Arts Commission of Philadelphia. A number of her portraits, garden, and fountain figures are in private collections. She married to Edward Grove in 1936, and collaborated with him on several works including the Communion of Saints, a mural for the Church of the Holy Comforter, Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, and The American Express Goldpiece of 1982. She won many awards among which is the 1976 Tallix Foundry Award from the National Sculpture Society, an organization of which Grove was a member.
