Framed Oil on Panel "Fish" Abstract Work by Douglas Whittle

About the Item

A sixth-generation Floridian, Doug Whittle received a BFA in painting from the University of Florida in 1984. After graduation, he spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in central Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) teaching fish farming to villagers in the Kasai Occidental region. He returned to earn an MFA in printmaking from his alma mater in 1990, and then spent two years as Director of Visual Arts at the Stuart Center for the Arts in Stuart, Florida, before accepting a position on the art faculty of Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. From 1992-2004 he taught drawing, painting, printmaking, and 2-dimensional design at that institution, while also leading the annual Winter Term New York City travel program. In 2004 he was hired to be the Director of Educational Travel at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Division of Continuing Studies, where he spent the next 17 years imagining, planning, and leading educational trips around the country and throughout the world, until his retirement in 2021. He currently resides in Madison, Wisconsin. Education 1990 Master of Fine Arts, Printmaking, University of Florida 1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting, University of Florida Collections Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Western Carolina University Carolina First Bank Palmetto State Bank Marriott Hotel Corporation The State Library of South Carolina Wofford College Jenkins & Gilchrist, P.A., Houston, TX University of Florida Private Collections in the U.S., France, Germany and Italy Awards 2022 Best Landscape, March PleinAir Salon Art Competition 2021 Second Place, November PleinAir Salon Art Competition 2003 Public Commission, Marriott Hotel at Renaissance Park, Spartanburg, SC First Place, Hub City Juried Art Exhibit, Spartanburg, SC 2002 Purchase Award, Small Works Exhibition, Upstairs Gallery, Tryon, NC 2002 Faculty Development Grant, Converse College 1999 Photography Award, 24th Annual Anderson Arts Exhibit, Anderson, SC KEENAN FUND FOR THE HUMANITIES GRANT, Converse College 1997 Award of Distinction, Exhibition 280, Huntington Museum of Art; catalogue cover.

Dimensions:

Height: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)Width: 37.5 in (95.25 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)

Materials and Techniques:

Canvas

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

21st Century

Date of Manufacture:

2022

Production Type:

New & Custom(One of a Kind)