Doyle Gertjejansen (American/Louisiana, b. 1948), "The Great Wave - 5", 2007, acrylic on gallery-wrapped canvas, signed, titled, dated and inscribed en verso, 30 1/4 in. x 30 1/4 in., unframed . Provenance: Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA Provenance: Collection of Noted Preservationist and Aesthete Dorian M. Bennett, New Orleans. Note: Doyle Gertjejansen has been creating large scale mixed media abstractions for over four decades. He received an MFA from the University of Minnesota and has resided in New Orleans for most of his professional career while serving as professor and in numerous other capacities at the University of New Orleans. Gertjejansen's colorful works, such as "The Great Wave - 5" offered here, combine pictorial imagery, in this case Hokusai’s famous masterwork, with formal abstraction through a wide-ranging process of mark-making. For all of their dynamic feeling of improvisation, each canvas is a carefully created composition that seems to celebrate the formal art of painting. Ref.: "Doyle Gertjejansen." Callan Contemporary. www.callancontemporary.com. Accessed July 29, 2020