Douglas Bourgeois Explained
Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter. Bourgeois has been called one of the new "visionary imagists".[1]
Life
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
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
- 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
- Delehanty, Randolph, Art in the American South, Works from the Ogden Collection, Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1996, p. 225.
Notes and References
- Web site: Smithsonian American Art Museum . 2011-10-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030308/http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?StartRow=1&ID=529 . 2016-03-04 . dead .
- Book: Judith H. Bonner. Estill Curtis Pennington. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 21: Art and Architecture. 14 January 2013. UNC Press Books. 978-0-8078-6994-9. 244–.
- Book: The Art of the South, 1890-2003: The Ogden Museum of Southern Art. 1 January 2004. Scala Publishers. 978-1-85759-325-9.
- 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
- http://arthurrogergallery.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Douglas_Bourgeois_bio.pdf Arthur Roger Gallery
