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 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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