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Donald Demers

Donald W. Demers (Born 1956) is active/lives in Maine, Massachusetts.  Donald Demers is known for Luminist marine and landscape painting, illustration.

A marine and landscape painter who lives in Kittery, Maine, Donald Demers learned to paint in the 19th-century classical realist style.  His paintings are depictions of his rural surroundings.

He grew up in Lunenburg, Massachusetts and spent his summers at Boothbay Harbor, Maine where he was especially fascinated by the sailing vessels.  He learned the fundamentals of art from a high school art teacher and then attended the School of the Worcester Art Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts and the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.  Frustrated with the curriculum Demers left art school and worked aboard traditional sailing ships before returning to illustration.

He began his professional career as an illustrator for Reader's Digest and Yankee magazines, and won national prizes in marine competitions.  He is an elected Fellow of the American Society of Marine Artists.

Sources include:
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Facts about Donald Demers

   Publications  Book References:  5
Magazine References:  17

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17 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Donald Demers
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Fine Art Connoisseur The Henry and Sharon Martin Collection October 2010 Hunter, Elizabeth Ives Fisher Yes
Art & Antiques Coastline and Clipper Ships August 2006 Hargreaves, Gayle Yes
Fine Art Connoisseur New American Luminists: Light on Land and Sea April 2006 Wolf, Rachel Yes
Plein Air Magazine Don Demers: Painting the Visual Landscape March 2005 Editors, Plein Air Yes
Southwest Art On the Scene August 2004 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Art-Talk Plein Air Painters of American Move June 2004 Editors, Art-Talk Yes
Wildlife Art Field Notes May 2004 GawneMark, Chelsie Yes
Southwest Art From Sea to Shining Sea May 2004 Stern, Jean No
Southwest Art A View to the Sea October 2003 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Wildlife Art Down by the Sea March 2003 Editors, Wildlife Art Yes
American Artist From Surf to Turf February 2003 Doherty, Stephen M Yes
Southwest Art News from the California Art Scene October 2002 Editors, Southwest Art Yes
Southwest Art Yosemite Artists November 2001 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Art of the West Capturing the Grandeur of Yosemite September 2001 Stavig, Vicki Yes
American Artist Sacred Scenery March 2000 Skrapits, Joseph C. Yes
American Artist 10 Finalists of the American Artist October 1999 Editors Yes
American Artist Donald W Demers June 1999 Doherty, Stephen Yes
5 Book References for Donald Demers
Year Author Title Pages Color
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2004 Haggin Museum of Art From Sea to Shining Sea
(Exhibition catalog)
104 Yes
2003 Editor, Gallery Exhibition Small Works, Holiday Exhibition:
(Exhibition catalog)
39 Yes
1998 Baird, Julian The New American Luminists: Revisit the Native Landscape
(Exhibition catalog)
25 Yes
1980 Archibald, E H H Dictionary of Sea Painters 455 Yes
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