Douglas K. Look died on Sunday morning, Jan. 22, 2017, at Windemere Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Oak Bluffs. He was 77 years old.
Doug was born in Oak Bluffs on Jan. 2, 1940, the only son of Ralph A. Look Jr. and Millicent Luce Look. He grew up and lived most of his life in the family home on the corner of Franklin and Center Streets in Vineyard Haven. He graduated from Tisbury High School in 1958. He was drafted and trained at Fort Hunter Liggett in California, where he learned to be a hospital laboratory technician. As a boy he was an art student of local artist Sidney Riggs. He later studied art at the Art Students League and the New School in New York City.
Doug worked as a lab tech at St. Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford, but returned to Martha’s Vineyard and became a landscape gardener. He cared for several homes in Vineyard Haven for more than 40 years.
Doug was an artist and a landscape gardener, a tennis player and a scientist. A lifelong learner, he loved books, ideas, and good food and conversation. He went back and forth from drawing and painting tiny worlds to studying them under microscopes until he became completely blind from advanced glaucoma three and a half years ago.
He leaves behind many Island friends and extended family. He is survived by his daughter Sara Luce Look and granddaughter Zelda Jane Look of Pine Lake, Ga.
Donations in his memory may be made to Friends of the Vineyard Haven Public Library, 200 Main Street, Vineyard Haven, MA 02568, or to the Oliver Sacks Foundation, 225 West 83rd Street, Suite 12A, New York, NY 10011.
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