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Despite finding them “engaging and admirably crafted,” James R. Mellow of The New York Times concluded that the sculptures were “dissatisfying” for their “illustrational stodginess.”

Douglas’s answers came in the form of an original, illustrational idiom that looks stronger than ever today.

A few veer toward illustrational kitsch, and the prevailing symmetry of their forms can begin to feel complacent.

His paintings, done in a crisply realistic, highly detailed, somewhat cut-and-paste illustrational style, are far from grim.

That format placed the images in the subordinate illustrational role that he decried.