Douglas Bourgeois

Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter. Bourgeois has been called one of the new "visionary imagists".

Life

Bourgeois was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974.

Collections

Bourgeois' work is held in the following collections: the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation (Los Angeles), 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).

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.

References

1951 births

20th-century American painters

American male painters

21st-century American painters

21st-century American male artists

Living people

Artists from Louisiana

20th-century American sculptors

20th-century American male artists

American male sculptors

People from Gonzales, Louisiana