Douglas Bourgeois

Two Poets on an Island (Emily Dickinson & Rakim Allah), oil painting on wood panel by Douglas Bourgeois, 1991, Honolulu Academy of Arts

Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter who was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974.

Bourgeois is one of the new "visionary imagists".^[1] The Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles), The Historic New Orleans Collection, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, 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) are among the public collections holding work by Douglas Bourgeois^[2]

References

• Arthur Roger Gallery, Douglas Bourgeois, New Orleans, Arthur Roger Gallery, 1994
• Bourgeois, Douglas, Dan Cameron, Estill Curtis Pennington, David S. Rubin and Weigel, Baby-boom Daydreams, the Art of Douglas Bourgeois, New York, Hudson Hills Press, 2003 ISBN 1555952216
• Delehanty, Randolph, Art in the American South, Works from the Ogden Collection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, p. 225.

External links

• Douglas Bourgeois on AskArt.com
• Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Inventories Catolog

Footnotes

1. ^ Smithsonian American Art Museum
2. ^ Arthur Roger Gallery

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