D.C. Langley Watercolors have always reflected the artist’s love of the outdoors, which began in his boyhood days growing up in the Adirondacks of upstate New York.  A self-taught artist, he studied the work of Frederick Remington, Andrew Wyeth, and Winslow Homer. His eye always studied his natural surroundings and the passion to express what he saw on paper never left him.

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As he graduated high school in 1945, the Chicago Cubs scouted David and signed him as a left-handed pitcher. As a contract bonus, owner Phil Wrigley agreed to fund his education at the University of Notre Dame. After completing Bachelor and Master's degrees in Education and following a two-year stint in the Marine Corps, David moved to Long Beach and began concentrating on lake scenes.

 

He was a prolific artist, choosing watercolor as the medium that rendered what he observed along the shores of Lake Michigan - washes of color in bright mornings and soft sunsets, dynamic water during sailboat races, and happy beach groups under summer skies. Though colorblind, he perfected his technique for decades, creating landscapes wherever he traveled - Florida's Key West, the Rhone in France, and the islands of Hawaii.   

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He always returned to the moods of water and skies, his last painting depicting a sailboat leaving a choppy harbor on a sunny summer day. He completed "Clever Exit" the day before his death on August 15, 2008.