Doug Rugh Biography

Biography
Doug Rugh, CM (pronounced rü) was born in Berlin and spent his childhood in the Middle East. As a teenager he apprenticed to ceramic and woodworking artisans in Cairo, Egypt and was involved with the arts at the Putney School in Vermont. Doug attended the Maryland Institute College of Art before studying at the Schuler School of Fine Arts in Baltimore, an atelier which specializes in materials and methods of the old masters. He worked as a scientific illustrator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA where both of his grandfathers did research. He completed his BFA in 1994 at the Rhode Island School of Design with honors.

Since then Doug has created original works of art for such clients as: Barnes and Noble, Microsoft, Prudential, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Newsweek and The Washington Post. Commissioned work appeared regularly in print, on book and magazine covers as well as in numerous publications.

Doug now devotes his time to creating fine art for galleries but also accepts portrait commissions. Paintings range in price from $900 for a small plein air piece to $15,000 for a large studio work. Rugh was awarded the distinction, "Copley Master" by the Copley Society (America's oldest nonprofit art association) as a result of juried works and multiple major awards in each of the three areas of landscape, still-life and portraiture.

The artist sketching in Kenya, 1975.

C U R R E N T E X H I B I T I O N S

Please click on "exhibitions" above to locate ongoing gallery representation.

E X H I B I T I O N S

St. Botolph Club, Boston, MA summer 2007
Copley Masters Juried Exhibition
The Copley Society, Boston, MA 2002-2008
CoSo Artists: A to Z: Award Winner, 2008
Juried Member's Shows: Fall 2002 - Award; Spring 2002 - Award, Fall 2003 - Award; Spring 2004 - Award
Fresh Paint 2003-2006, Small Works 2002-2006;
125th Anniversary Invitational Exhibition 2004
The Walsingham Gallery, Newburyport, MA 2002-2008,
Life's Splender, 2003
Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA 2007
Little Treasures: Big Pleasures, 2007
Crane Collection, Wellesley, MA 2003-2007
John Pence Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2002-2007,
The Epic Still Life, 2002, Self Portraits, 2003
Tree's Place, Orleans, MA 2001-2005
Cahoon Museum of American Art,
Great Brush Off - Live Auction - Cotuit, MA 2004-2006;
Of Children and Childhood show, cahoon museum Feb/March 2007
Duxbury Art Complex & Museum,
Winter Juried Show, MA 2004
Guild of Boston Artists - Harvard Club, Boston, MA 2002
Oil Painters of America - Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, MA 2002,
Regional Juried Show
Cape Museum of Fine Arts - Live Auctions, Dennis, MA 2001-2006
Holland & Co., Nantucket, MA 2001
The Scott Bundy Gallery, Kennebunkport, MA 2003-2006
The Gallery at King's Wharfe, Kennebunkport, MA 2000-2003
Boston International Fine Arts Show, Boston, MA 2000, 2002
The Gallery at Langer Place, Manchester, MA 2000-2004
Sandpiper Gallery, Wellfleet, MA 2000
Marion Wine and Arts Festival, Marion MA 2000
Gallery 333, North Falmouth, MA 2000
Cape Gallery, Falmouth, MA 1997, 1999-2000
The Cataumet Arts Center, Cataumet, MA 1996-2007
The Woods Hole Gallery, Woods Hole, MA 1995-2007
Woods Hole Handworks, Woods Hole, MA 1998-1999
Marion Arts Center, Marion, MA 1999
Under the Sun, Woods Hole, MA 1998
The Falmouth Artists’ Guild, Falmouth, MA 1994-1998
Library Antiques, Williamstown, MA 1996-1998
The National Academy of Sciences, Woods Hole, MA 1998
The Schuler School of Fine Arts, Baltimore, MD 1986

S O L O E X H I B I T I O N S

Highfield Hall, Falmouth, MA (two-person) 2007, The Outdoor Experience: Doug Rugh and Hillary Osborn
Cataumet Arts Center, Cataumet, MA (two-person) 2003, From Woods Hole to Mt. Desert
Cataumet Arts Center, Cataumet, MA 2001, Recent Landscapes
Sandpiper Gallery, Wellfleet, MA (two-person) 2000
The Cape Gallery, Falmouth, MA (two-person) 1999, Shared Views
The Mazer Gallery, Falmouth, MA 1998
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1993
American Institute of Yemeni Studies 1985

D I S T I N C T I O N S

Awarded the distinction, "Copley Master" byThe Copley Society June, 2006

Winner of an award at the The Copley Society of Art CoSo Artists' A to Z., June, 2006

Finalist (over 13,000 entries) - Artist's Magazine Portrait & Figure Competition, 2004

Winner of the First Juror's Choice award at the The Copley Society Juried Spring Members Show, 2004

Winner of the First Juror's Choice award at the The Copley Society Juried Fall Members Show, 2003

Awarded the signature designation "CA" (Copley Artist) by The Copley Society, 2003.

Winner of the Richard and Mary Schroeder Portrait Award at the The Copley Society Juried Spring Members Show, 2003

Winner of the First Juror's Choice award at the The Copley Society Juried Fall Members Show, 2002

Awards Judge for Bourne-Wareham Art Association's 40th Annual Art Exhibition, 2004

Received Elaine Pare Cohen career development grant, 1998.

B R O A D C A S T

Featured artist in documentary produced by Channel 13, July, 2004.

The artist is featured in the opening segment at work on "Shining Sea Bike Path" in a PBS documentary about Cape Cod produced by Weekend Explorer's Cape Cod (available on DVD),, May, 2004.

Featured artist on "Arts and Inspiration" documentary produced by Channel 13, March, 2004.

Featured artist on “Millennium Moments” documentary produced by FCTV, April 2000.

Featured artist for the "Eye on Art" documentary produced by Channel 13, June, 1998.

P U B L I C A T I O N S

Books

Still-Life in Oils, pages 106-111, by Theodora Philcox,
Ava Publications, ISBN: 2884790128, March, 2003

How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint Still Lifes and Florals vol. 2, published by International Artist Publishing, March, 2005. Doug discusses the process of creating "Tomorrow's Designs".

How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint People and Figures vol. 2, published by International Artist Publishing, March, 2005. Doug discusses the process of creating "Illusionist".

Articles

Cape Cod Magazine, Artist Profiles: Collection of Self Portraits, April 2008.

Holiday Gift Guide, Enterprise Newspapers, Homegrown: Gift Ideas from Local Artisans, Nov., 2007.

Home Gallery Magazine, feature, Keep it Interesting, Cataumet Artist Doug Rugh, Vol. 4 Issue 6, 2007.

Cape Cod Magazine, feature, En Plein Air Artist..., September, 2007.

Pocasset Artist Doug Rugh Has Been Named Copley Master,
Falmouth, Bourne and Mashpee Enterprise, by Joanne Briana-Gartner, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006.

Cataumet Arts Center,
Interview with Doug Rugh and Hillary Osborn, Cape Arts Review, June, 2005.

Artist Achieves Realism with Hand-mulled Paint, Years of Honed Skill,
Falmouth Enterprise, by Ellen Lennon, February, 2004.

Doug Rugh - Painter, Artist of the Month, NewHampshire.com,
by Lisa Martineau, May, 2002.

An Artist for All Seasons, by Deborah J. Carr,
Upper Cape Codder, November 7th, 2001.

Cape Cod Life publications Cape Cod Arts guide, 2000-2001.

Various gallery reviews and feature articles, The Falmouth Enterprise, 1995-2007

Catalogs

Small Works - Holiday Exhibition Tree's Place Gallery exhibition catalog - Fall, 2004

Allegories, John Pence Gallery exhibition catalog - Spring, 2004.

Small Works - Holiday Exhibition Tree's Place Gallery exhibition catalog - Fall, 2003

Self Portraits, John Pence Gallery exhibition catalog - Fall, 2003.

Still Lifes - Florals - Interiors, John Pence Gallery exhibition catalog - Fall, 2002.

Cover Art

Putney Post Annual Report, "Days Harvest" - Fall, 2001.

T E A C H I N G

Workshops, courses and atelier-style tutoring in the methods of the "old masters" at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Cataumet Arts Center, Falmouth Artist's Guild and the Cape Cod Art Association, 1997 - 2004.

Guest artist (demo and workshop) at the Rhode Island School of Design, 1998.

A F F I L I A T I O N S

Juried/Signature member - The Copley Society

Portrait Registry member - The Copley Society

Associate Member - Guild of Boston Artists

Juried member - Oil Painters of America