Painter Ed Douglas

A painter for more than 50 years, Ed Douglas has traveled throughout his professional life to sources in the landscape that, in his words, resonate as "a natural and symbolic place, a refuge for solitude, work, and play, where nature and nurture combine and incubate slowly into paintings that compress my history yet breathe freely."

These investigations have brought him to Eastern and Western Europe, Scandinavia, Egypt, North Africa and the Near East. The paintings that result from his journeys are evocative of both the place and the reverie of being in its presence. Douglas received a BFA in painting from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute. His work is represented in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Portland Museum of Art, San Francisco Art Institute Art Bank, Cincinnati Art Museum, and others. This talk is sponsored by the Humanities Art Lecture Fund.