Duncan Martin
Duncan Martin is a painter living and working in Illinois and Colorado. Since 2011, Duncan’s work has focused on a painting project, 58 in 58, painting in all 59 National Parks in 59 months. (A 59th park was added in 2013). In February 2016, he painted in his 59th Park, Glacier National Park. A selection of work from this project was exhibited at the Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park celebrating the 100th anniversary of Acadia National Park and the National Park Service in August 2016. The project continues as Duncan develops a new body of work from his experiences painting in the parks. The website for this project is www.58in58.com.
Duncan studied painting with Neil Welliver at the University of Pennsylvania, receiving an MFA in 1986. Duncan joined the Principia College Studio Art faculty in 1987. In 1995, he left full time teaching to focus on painting and lived in New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado. In 2010, he returned to Principia College as a Professor of Art. He is currently Chair of the Art and Art History Department.
Duncan’s paintings have been exhibited at The Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park; Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, Virginia; Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, Arizona; Nielsen Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts; Susan Street Fine Art, Solana Beach, California; Shaw Contemporary and gWatson Gallery, Maine; The Gallery at the Tucson International Airport, Tucson, Arizona; The Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona; and the New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts. This year one of Duncan’s paintings was added to the permanent collection of the Tucson Museum of Art.