Douglas Bourgeois

Two Poets on an Island (Emily Dickinson & Rakim Allah), oil painting on wood panel by Douglas Bourgeois, 1991, Honolulu Museum of Art

Douglas Bourgeois (born 1951) is an American sculptor and figurative painter who was born in Gonzales, Louisiana and grew up in St. Amant, Louisiana. He received a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1974.

Bourgeois is one of the new "visionary imagists".[1] 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) are among the public collections holding work by Douglas Bourgeois[2]

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