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About Douglas Whitfield
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BACKGROUND AND TECHNIQUE
 Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1945. Douglas spends equal time creating his unique vision in oils, and teaching art and physiological brain theory as it applies to learning, insight, and creativity. Cleveland Plain Dealer's art editor describes Whitfield's paintings as "haunting, provocative, always arousing the limbic."
Whitfield studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and Rochester Institute of Technology, receiving his BFA in 1968.
Whitfield's paintings gained recognition throughout the South West for the modern sensibility that they brought to the traditional folk history of the region, and his work was widely published. In the early seventies, Whitfield's study of the old masters brought him new recognition in Europe, as an artist who depicted post Freudian visions in a stunning contemporary manner. Whitfield has won numerous awards and distinctions in art competitions throughout the world. He has had seventeen one man shows, and is represented in galleries in many major cities including New York, London and throughout the world.
 Today, Whitfield's paintings are in private collections throughout the United States and Europe. He is in many collections in the Los Angeles area, where he represented the vanishing species for the Guild of American Screen Actors benefit in Los Angeles. The former governor of Texas, Ann Richards, is one of Whitfield's patrons.
Whitfield resides in Cedar Lake, NY with his wife Franca.
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
Education
1962-1965 Cleveland Institute of Art
1965-1968 Rochester Institute of Technology (BFA Fine Arts)
1980-1983 National Institute of Integrative Learning (Master Teacher, Creativity)
Professional
1969-1972 United States Air Force (Precision Photographic Services Officer)
1972-2002 Artist painter (sold over one thousand paintings throughout the world)
1970-1972 University of Texas, Austin (Adjunct faculty, Figure Structure)
1989 Art Expo, Los Angeles, CA
Painting Honors
1968 First Prize, Rochester Art Director's, Professional Painter of the Year
1969-81 Best in Show, Best in Class, Laguna Gloria International Juried Show
1972 Purchase Prize, Texas Fine Arts Association
1976 First Prize, Rochester Finger Lakes Show
1979 First Prize, Munson Williams Proctor Institute Annual Invitational
1979 First Prize, Everson Museum Central New York Biannual
1980 First Prize Oil Painting, USA Mainstream Invitational
Museum Collections
Munson Williams Proctor Institute, Utica,N.Y.
Everson Musuem of Fine Art, Syracuse, N.Y.
Laguna Gloria Museum of Fine Art, Austin, Texas
University of Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
1968 Gallery 696 Altilier, Rochester, N.Y.
1968 David Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
1971 St. Charles Gallery, Austin, Texas
1973 Oxford Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
1974 Environment Gallery, New York,N.Y.
1975 Giardelli Gallery, Rome, Italy
1975 Oxford Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
1976 Wilson Gallery, Harley School, Rochester, N.Y.
1991 CFM Gallery, SOHO, New York, N.Y.
1998 Austin Galleries, Austin, Texas
2000 Chalk Farm Gallery, London England
2000 Austin Galleries, Austin, Texas
2001 Chalk Farm Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001 Stricoff Fine Arts Gallery, Chelsea, New York, N.Y.
2002 Primavera Gallery, Ojai, California
2002 Castle Gallery, Fort Wayne, Indiana
2003 Oxford Gallery, Rochester, N.Y.
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