Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter. Bourgeois has been called one of the new "visionary imagists".[1]
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Life edit
Bourgeois was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974.[2][3]
Collections edit
Bourgeois' work is held in the following collections:
- the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles),[4]
- 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).[5]
Bibliography edit
- 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.
References edit
- ^ "Smithsonian American Art Museum". Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2011-10-23.
- ^ Judith H. Bonner; Estill Curtis Pennington (14 January 2013). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture. UNC Press Books. pp. 244–. ISBN 978-0-8078-6994-9.
- ^ The Art of the South, 1890-2003: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Scala Publishers. 1 January 2004. ISBN 978-1-85759-325-9.
- ^ http://www.weismanfoundation.org/pdf/Weisman%201113v4.pdf [bare URL PDF]
- ^ Arthur Roger Gallery Archived May 4, 2012, at the Wayback Machine