Douglas Bourgeois
{{Short description|American sculptor and painter (born 1951)}}
File:Douglas Bourgeois - 'Two Poets on an Island', 1991, oil on wood panel, HAA (Emily Dickinson & Rakim Allah).JPG & Rakim Allah), oil painting on wood panel by Douglas Bourgeois, 1991, Honolulu Museum of Art]]
Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter. Bourgeois has been called one of the new "visionary imagists".{{Cite web |url=http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?StartRow=1&ID=529 |title=Smithsonian American Art Museum |access-date=2011-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030308/http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?StartRow=1&ID=529 |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=dead }}
Life
Bourgeois was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974.{{cite book|author1=Judith H. Bonner|author2=Estill Curtis Pennington|title=The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uj4vqIjD-_AC&pg=PA244|date=14 January 2013|publisher=UNC Press Books|isbn=978-0-8078-6994-9|pages=244–}}{{cite book|title=The Art of the South, 1890-2003: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OKdPAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 2004|publisher=Scala Publishers|isbn=978-1-85759-325-9}}
Collections
Bourgeois' work is held in the following collections:
- the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles),http://www.weismanfoundation.org/pdf/Weisman%201113v4.pdf Under the Influence of Finance•Fashion - Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation - December 15, 2013-February 16, 2014 - Carnegie Art Museum
- The Historic New Orleans Collection,
- the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Morris Museum of Art (Augusta, GA),
- the New Orleans Museum of Art,
- the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans),
- the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), and
- the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (Winston-Salem, NC).[http://arthurrogergallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Douglas_Bourgeois_bio.pdf Arthur Roger Gallery] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504015700/http://arthurrogergallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Douglas_Bourgeois_bio.pdf |date=May 4, 2012 }}
Bibliography
- Arthur Roger Gallery, Douglas Bourgeois, New Orleans, Arthur Roger Gallery, 1994
- Bourgeois, Douglas, Dan Cameron, Estill Curtis Pennington, David S. Rubin and Jay Weigel, Baby-boom Daydreams, the Art of Douglas Bourgeois, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2003 {{ISBN|1-55595-221-6}}
- Delehanty, Randolph, Art in the American South, Works from the Ogden Collection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, p. 225.
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