Douglas Martenson

Professor, Painting
A man with wavy, dark hair and a receding hairline looks slightly to his left while wearing a red, collared button-down shirt outdoors.
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Painting
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martenson@pobox.pafa.edu
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Martenson has made his home in Philadelphia since 1978 and is a Graduate of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. His studio is a three story row house located in the Dickenson square area of Philadelphia and the house he rents in Maine is an old farm house located on seventeen acres facing Cadillac Mountain.

Martenson has been the recipient of many grants and awards including a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, several Individual Creative Opportunity stipends from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a Pew fellowship on the Arts grant for study at the Vermont studio center in northern Vermont, and a Cresson European Traveling Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He has exhibited widely and shows his work regularly in New York, Philadelphia and Boston galleries.

Martenson has recently curated two exhibitions for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts: Landscapes Modern to Contemporary (2019) and The Artist’s Response to Nature: Tonalism, Historical to Contemporary (2016). Martenson was a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Professor of Fine Art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

 

Artwork by Douglas Martenson

An oil painting depicts a interior view of a house where a woman stands in a brightly lit room to the left, while another woman enters through a glass paneled doorway on the right.
Coming Home, Oil 42 x 52
A textured oil painting depicts a dense patch of wild, drying field grasses and yellow wildflowers reaching toward a dark, shadowed background.
Dry Field, Oil, 28 x 24
An oil painting depicting four workers from behind standing on a green field and observing a massive cloud of dark smoke rising in front of them.
Smoke, Oil, 16 x 24
A realistic graphite drawing depicts two workers in hats and workwear seen from behind, leaning against a large tree branch in a misty landscape.
Meeting, Graphite with white highlights, 30 x 22
A monochrome graphite figure drawing depicts a nude individual reclining on the ground, leaning on one arm with their back and torso turned toward the viewer.
Figure Sitting, Graphite with white highlights, 22 x 30

 

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