Douglas Ross
Douglas Ross is a retired professor from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His work includes intricate paintings that embrace the beauty of northern Minnesota, with its wealth of trees, rocks, and water.
Artist’s statement:
The present exhibition of paintings shown at the Gallery at Cross were drawn from three projets with which I have been involved over the past ten years. These projects have kept me very busy traveling and painting during that period. I visted all of the sites that are the subject matter for my paintings.
The first project began in early 2010 and presented an exciting and challenging task. The plan was to travel to all fifty states, photograph waterfalls in every state, and return to my studio to develop the paintings, a waterfall from each state.
Following the waterfall project I traveled from Lake Itasca down the west side of the Mississippi River to south of New Orleans and then back up the east side into Minnesota again. This project resulted in two paintings from each of the ten states that are bordered by the Mississippi.
I had just travelled from North to South and back again. Obviously, it was time for a trip from the Midwest to the West Coast. I crossed from Missouri to Kansas as did the pioneers whose adventure established the Oregon Trail. This project resulted in three paintings from the five states along the Oregon Trail.
“I have a dream...” Yes, I am still thinking of projects. Perhaps next:
the Appalachian Trail. We will see!