Born in Texarkana, Texas, Duke Windsor served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a radio operator, combat illustrator/photographer, and drill instructor.  After leaving the service, Windsor was a freelance illustrator and amateur rodeo cowboy competing in bull-riding, bare back and steer wrestling events.  He subsequently studied classical voice at San Diego State University and later performed professionally with the San Diego Opera Chorus. Windsor holds the rank of 4th Degree Black Belt in Kempo martial arts and operated a martial arts studio for over seven years.  Windsor opened his first art studio in the Gaslamp Quarter in 1994.  Since then he has artistically explored a wide range of subjects. Windsor's Urban-Scapes have been exhibited and received awards at numerous juried exhibitions, group shows and corporate venues in San Diego and Southern California, and they are held in many private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.  He has produced a variety of portrait commissions and military historical works in various media including pastels, oils, acrylic, watercolors and linocut block prints, and his artistic breadth ranges from plein air to abstract.  In 2009, Windsor received Art Kudos International Online Merit Award for Acrylic Landscape painting He has exhibited internationally including Ankara, Instanbul, Mexico and Yokohama and throughout the U.S.A.    Windsor is currently an Associate Artist member of the California Art Club, and is a former board member and current artist mentor with A.R.T.S., A Reason to Survive, which empowers troubled youth through the arts.  He is also a member and past Education Chair for the San Diego Museum of Art's Artist Guild, and he has served as a member of the Public Arts Selection Committee for the San Diego Regional Airport Authority Art Program.  Windsor is the former Director of Exhibits at the USS Midway Museum and was Traveling Exhibits Designer at the San Diego Natural History Museum from 2005 - 2007. Not available for self-published contract work.