Douglas Mcclellan

'Still Life', Bay Area Abstraction, Metropolitan Museum, SFMOMA, LACMA, Abstract

Circa 1975

Douglas McClellan was one of the pioneering figures at UCSC. McClellan's work has been exhibited widely, including at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York and the Library of Congress, in Washington, D.C. His work may be found in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Pasadena Art Museum, among others. McClellan attended Pasadena City College and the Los Angeles Art Center, served in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a camofleur and after the War, enrolled at the Colorado Springs Art Institute, where he met his wife, Marjorie Ness, an artist. McClellan obtained his master of fine arts degree at Claremont Graduate School. Before teaching at UCSC, McClellan chaired the art department at Scripps College, one of the Claremont Colleges and the Claremont Graduate School, M.F.A. program, as well as taught as an associate professor at Chaffey College, in Ontario. McClellan was a member of the California Watercolor Society and the Los Angeles Art Association.