DOUG LARUE • bio
Doug worked at camera stores and photography labs, interned with several photographers, attended summer photography classes at Southern Methodist University. Attended field trips and introductions to local news media affiliates and publishing companies. His yearbook staff won a national publication design award, a couple of national scholastic honors, was featured in a publishing documentary film and won a scholarship before highschool graduation.
Doug graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Design from Texas A&M University College of Architecture while working as a NCAA Sports Photojournalist for United Press International and Associated Press. LaRue worked as a Medical Illustrator at the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences. His art education continued through workshops offered to state agencies including the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Advanced Airbrush workshop at the Smithsonian Institute of Natural History in Washington, D.C.
Doug’s career has always included elements artistic expression through conceptual design in a variety of genres including commercial and residential architecture, book and magazine publishing, art directing and producing films and even appeared in a few studio movies.
LaRue’s artwork is in private collections worldwide and is included in The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University Albert B. Alkek Library and the Forsyth Gallery Collections at Texas A&M University.