'View of Crete' by Douglas McClellan, 1988; Abstract Monotype, California Artist, Sfmoma, Lacma and Metropolitan Museum

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Signed lower right, 'Douglas McClellan' (American, dated 1988 and titled lower left, 'Cretan View'; additionally signed, titled, dated and media … Read more Signed lower right, 'Douglas McClellan' (American, dated 1988 and titled lower left, 'Cretan View'; additionally signed, titled, dated and media noted as 'monotype with collage' on verso.

A founding member of the art department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and professor emeritus of art, Douglas McClellan was one of the pioneering figures at UCSC. McClellan's work has been exhibited throughout northern and southern California including at the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. as well as locally, earning him Artist of the Year in Santa Cruz County in 1992. His work remains in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Pasadena Art Museum and the Los Angeles County Fair Collection.

McClellan attended Pasadena City College and the Los Angeles Art Center, served in the Pacific Theater of World War 11 as a camofleur, and after the War enrolled at the Colorado Springs Art Institute where he met his wife, artist Marjorie Ness. McClellan obtained his master of fine arts at Claremont Graduate School. Prior to 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 associate professor at Chaffey College in Ontario. McClellan was a member of the California Watercolor Society and the Los Angeles Art Association.

Reference:
Who Was Who in American Art 00 Years of Artists in America, Peter Hastings Falk, Sound View Press 1999, Vol. 2, p. 2103; et al.

Exhibition History:
LOC (1948); SFMA (1949, 1952); CGA (1953); PAFA Ann. (1954); Carnegie Institute ( 1955, 1957); AFA (1955); LACMA (1949-50, prize, urchase prize, Los Angeles County Fair (1949, 1953); National Orange Show (1954, prize); West Coast biennial (1955); WMAA (1957)

Solo Exhibition History:
Landau Gal. (1953, 1955, 1957); Pasadena Art museum (1954); Riverside, California (1955). See less