My name is Doug Marx, I am a landscape painter making art in and of Nebraska, the Platte River Valley, the rural Midwest and the prairies of the Great Plains. My paintings have been described as traditional, modern, abstract and semi-abstract landscapes. I am a daily painter, a plein aire painter and a studio artist. I work in oil, acrylic and watercolor paints on stretched canvas, wood panel and paper. I began painting at the age of seven and have worked as a professional artist for almost twenty years. My artwork is in corporate art collections and private art collections throughout the country.
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Studio News
“Sunset on the Platte West of Plattsmouth” is a painting I did last fall. It is a fresco on a wood panel supported by a wood cradle. Plattsmouth is one of the older towns in Nebraska. Located at the convergence of the Platte river and the Missouri river. The town began it’s life as a trading post in the 1850’s known as “the barracks”. I spent most of my youth on the Platte river further West of this location, hiking the shore line and the river itself. Sunsets on the Platte are …
“Winter Sky North of Salt Creek” is a plein aire sunset I painted in January. I painted this in the parking lot of the Lincoln Salt Dog’s parking lot. The view is to north as Salt Creek takes an eastward bend through Lincoln. Salt Creek is part of Eastern Saline wetland habitat in Lancaster County in Nebraska. The Journal Star is reporting that the Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded Nebraska a grant to restore 80 acres of Saline Wetlands habitat, home of the Salt Creek tiger beetle. Here’s a link to the …
“Walk Back From the Third Lake” is a landscape painting I did at dusk in mid February. The third lake refers to the third lake at the Mormon Island State Recreation Area about 8 miles South of Grand Island, Nebraska, right off the junction of Interstate 80 and Nebraska Highway 281.
These three lakes are part of series of over 50 small lakes that run from Grand Island to around Hershey, Nebraska about 150 miles to the west. The lakes are man made “sand pits” that were excavated for …
This is a Landscape painting that I did last fall. “West of the Lowell Corner” is a fresco on wood panel. Lowell, Nebraska was a boom town in the 1870’s. At one time it was the most Western point on the Burlington and Missouri Rail Road. It’s about 2 miles south of the Platte river and around 15 miles Southeast of Kearney. There’s not much there anymore but in the early in 1870’s it was the third largest town in Nebraska with a population of over …
During the first week of January the sun was still going down early and it was very cold. I painted this pleine aire landscape painting of a sunset from the comfort of my pickup truck. It is titled “Looking West Across Salt Creek”. Salt Creek is part of the saline wetlands area in Lancaster County in Nebraska. The rare and endangered Salt Creek Tiger Beetle makes its’ home further downstream from where this was painted. Salt Creek …
I just finished this landscape painting of a sunrise, titled “East of Exeter Winter Sunrise”. I started the painting en plein aire then finished the painting up in the studio. Exeter is a small Nebraska town located on Nebraska Highway 6. It is halfway between Lincoln, Nebraska and Hastings, Nebraska. Exeter was settled in the 1870’s after the passing of the Homestead act in 1862. It’s rumored that is named after Exeter, New Hampshire suggested by some settlers who had moved west …
This painting was done in February on a Sunday night just as the sunset. I was looking South about a half mile West of the Lone Grave turn off just Northwest of Kenesaw, Nebraska, hence the paintings title “West of the Lone Grave Turnoff February Dusk”. Growing up I passed this intersection most Sunday evenings it’s an interesting mix of fields and what I consider to be the most southern foothills of the Sandhills. It’s interesting because this area is South of the Platte River and the Sandhills lie to the North and further West.
Lone Grave is a local landmark and the …
“Field North of the Granite Counter Top Place” is a painting of part of the Saline Wetlands that are now filled in and are part of an industrial park just west of Lincoln Nebraska… The Plovers still return though every year in the Summer. I painted this in late January it was early morning and the sunrise had happened about a half hour before I got out there.
I was reminded of what Alfred East wrote in his book” …
