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Gerald Rougé recieved his early art training at the Cleveland Institute of Art in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his career as an illustrator in a Cleveland art studio. During the next 30 years, while continuing to work as an illustrator/ designer he managed an ad agency art studio and later opened his own ad agency. In 1995 he returned to a long deferred plan to leave the field of commercial art and to establish credentials as a fine artist.
	Living in a small village East of Cleveland, Rougé found that the changing seasons of Northeast Ohio provided a wealth of subject matter for landscape paintings. Working primarily in oils on canvas and panels he has captured the essense of the woods and streams of Ohio. Numerous walking tours in a dozen countries overseas have provided opportunities to paint more expansive and unusual paintings. Although landscapes comprise much of his subject matter, still life and experimental paintings have expanded his creative boundries. Gerald has given one man shows at the Sandusky Cultural Center, the Meyer Center, the North Chagrin Nature Center and the West Woods Nature Center. His work can be viewed at Imagery Gallery in Chagrin Falls and at the Goodwin Avenue Gallery in Burton, Ohio.