How can I buy a work by Douglass Freed?

Bruno David Gallery handles the sale of available works by Douglass Freed. For prices and availability, email info@brunodavidgallery.com or call +1 314 696 2377.

Where can I see work by Douglass Freed in person?

At Bruno David Gallery, 7513 Forsyth Boulevard, Saint Louis, Missouri 63105, during public hours or by appointment. His work is also in the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Newark Museum of Art, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Springfield Art Museum and the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art.

What does Douglass Freed make?

Spare, often ambiguous oil paintings of horizons, clouds and water, ranging from nearly monochromatic to fully chromatic and often extending across adjoining canvases, between traditional landscape painting and color-field abstraction.

Where is Douglass Freed based?

Douglass Freed lives and works in Sedalia, Missouri.

Has Douglass Freed had an exhibition at Bruno David Gallery?

Yes. Mystical Light (30 October 2020 to 10 January 2021); Reflective Landscapes (6 December 2013 to 11 January 2014) are among his exhibitions at the gallery. Catalogues can be read in the gallery’s Publications library at brunodavidgallery.com/publications.

Douglass Freed

Douglass Freed (born 1944) is a Missouri-based landscape painter who works between traditional landscape painting and color-field abstraction. His spare, often ambiguous oil paintings of horizons, clouds, and water frequently extend across adjoining canvases, where the same forms shift in color and light while the panels remain of a piece.

The work ranges from quiet, nearly monochromatic paintings to fully chromatic ones. Through blended color, texture, and structure, Freed makes places that suggest both an actual scene and a dreamlike, even spiritual, calm. His approach to light and color draws on 1960s color-field painting.

Freed received a BFA in 1967 and an MA in 1968 from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. He taught at State Fair Community College in Sedalia, Missouri, from 1968, leading its art department for more than three decades, and was founding director of the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, which opened in 2002. He served on the Missouri Arts Council and received the Missouri Governor’s Award for Leadership in the Arts in 2007.

He has had more than sixty solo exhibitions, and his work has been covered by The New York Times, Art in America, and Arts Magazine. It is held by the Saint Louis Art Museum, the Newark Museum of Art, Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, the University of Missouri’s Museum of Art and Archaeology, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the Springfield Art Museum, and the Daum Museum. He joined Bruno David Gallery in 2013 and lives and works in Sedalia. His son is the painter Damon Freed.

→ Read the Mystical Light catalogue

→ Read the Reflection noitcelfeR catalogue

→ Read the Reflective Landscapes catalogue

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