Douglas Gorsline
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Douglas W. Gorsline Painter, writer (1913 - 1985)
Douglas Gorsline was born in Rochester, New York in 1913. He attended Yale Art School and the Art Students’ League of New York. He taught at the National Academy of Design in New York City before moving to France in 1964. He was the first American artist invited to China (1973). His work was exhibited regularly in the United States and in France, Belgium and Germany.He received a great many awards and his works are in several museum, institutional and private collections. Douglas Gorsline died in 1985; the Gorsline Museum was inaugurated in 1994.
Gorsline’s technique and sources derive from certain elements of cubism and realism. He often uses cubist composition as a means of approaching the real. Marcel Duchamp had a strong effect on him because he joined the idea of movement to the concepts of cubism- as in the « Nude Descending the Staircase » . It is of note that both Gorsline and Duchamp were inspired by the chronophotography of Étienne Jules Marey who in order to fulfill his scientific pursuits invented cameras and methods to decompose movement.
While other schools of art seemed to concentrate on playing with reality in displaced or symbolic ways, Gorsline sought a solution that allowed his subjects their true actuality, their true features – all the more true in that they are seen in a state of movement. Technical and emotional values are joined in each canvas. Meanwhile one can see the expression of a sequential simultaneity, a succession of realities, which coexist, in our lives and in the world in which we live.
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[edit] Books
- What People Wore: 1,800 Illustrations from Ancient Times to the Early Twentieth Century, ISBN 0-486-28162-0
- The Night Before Christmas, Clement Clarke Moore, ISBN 0-394-83019-9
- The Pioneers, Marie Gorsline, ISBN 0-394-83904-8
- Haunted Bookshop avec Christopher Morley, ISBN 0-7858-1825-1
- Cowboys avec Marie Gorsline, ISBN 0-394-83935-8
- Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers avec Burke Davis, ISBN 0-698-20455-7
- North American Indians, ISBN 0-8085-5150-7
- The Vicksburg Veteran avec F. N. Monjo, ISBN 0-671-65156-0
[edit] Museum
The museum was built in 1994 at Bussy-le-Grand, in Côté d'Or (Bourgogne, France).
[edit] Association
The Association of the Friends of the Gorsline Museum was created under the direction of Marie Gorsline in 1994. Ever since Marie has devoted her energies to the association’s goal of perpetuating the memory of Douglas Gorsline through his works. Having presented exhibitions of quality each year since the inauguration of the museum in 1994 she has established it as an important center of art and cultural activity. The museum’s exhibitions and concerts are frequented by both connoisseurs and people not yet initiated to the arts drawn to the museum by the convivial atmosphere in which they feel free to enjoy what the see and hear. A special effort has been made to introduce the children of the area to the pleasures to be found in experiencing the world of creativity. The Gorsline Museum though helped by local and regional grants cannot continue to exist and function fully without the aid of popular support. The association membership therefore seeks to inspire friends and art lovers to join the Association of the Friends of the Gorsline Museum in support of the activities it undertakes under the guidance of Marie Gorsline.
