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David Park (March 17, 1911 September 20, 1960) was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s. David Park was born in Boston, the son of Mary Turner and Charles Edward Park. He attended school in Connecticut and in 1928 moved to Los Angeles,
David Park produced a late body of work extraordinary for its focus and direction. In a sharp shift from abstraction to figuration. Park’s move stands out as a re-orientation of radical proportion. Yet it is as a teacher and mentor that Park presides as the cornerstone of an entire art movement and perspective, which came […]
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David Park was a painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.
David Park decisively influenced the course of Bay Area art in his day by initiating a historic new direction in painting. The Bay Area Figurative movement is now considered the area’s most singular contribution to 20th-century American art. Park moved to Los Angeles in 1928 to attend the Otis Art Institute, his only formal education, […]
Bather with Green Sea by David Park
I've known about David Park for a long time, but only today did I realize that he wasn't a contemporary artist. I discovered him around the time that Neo-Expressionism was in full force, and I just thought he was a living Bay Area Neo-Expressionist. I guess I didn't read the captions carefully on any of…
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"I think of painting—in fact all the arts—as a sort of extension of human life. The very same things that we value most, the ideals of humanity, are the properties of the arts."—David Park, 1959 David Park (b Boston, MA, 17 March 1911; d Berkeley, CA, 20 Sept 1960). American painter. He studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1928, before moving to San Francisco, where he took a job as a stonecutter. He married in 1930 and from 1931 to 1936 taught in private schools in the East Bay area and at the University of California Extension Division, while painting murals for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He was given his first one-man show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1935. Park's mature figurative period lasted only a decade. In 1960, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. That summer, despite intense pain, he managed to paint over 100 small gouaches in ten weeks prior to his death. These vividly colored, spontaneous yet poignant works are a moving testimony to Park's supremacy as a painter. David Park's paintings are featured in major museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Oakland Museum of California. Hackett-Freedman Gallery is the exclusive representative of the artist's estate. Courtesy of rogallery.com/Park_David/park-biography.html
DAVID PARK1911 - 1960TWO HEADS signed and dated 59oil on canvas 28 ⅜ by 40 ¼ in.
"I think of painting—in fact all the arts—as a sort of extension of human life. The very same things that we value most, the ideals of humanity, are the properties of the arts."—David Park, 1959 David Park (b Boston, MA, 17 March 1911; d Berkeley, CA, 20 Sept 1960). American painter. He studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, in 1928, before moving to San Francisco, where he took a job as a stonecutter. He married in 1930 and from 1931 to 1936 taught in private schools in the East Bay area and at the University of California Extension Division, while painting murals for the Works Progress Administration (WPA). He was given his first one-man show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1935. Park's mature figurative period lasted only a decade. In 1960, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. That summer, despite intense pain, he managed to paint over 100 small gouaches in ten weeks prior to his death. These vividly colored, spontaneous yet poignant works are a moving testimony to Park's supremacy as a painter. David Park's paintings are featured in major museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Oakland Museum of California. Hackett-Freedman Gallery is the exclusive representative of the artist's estate. Courtesy of rogallery.com/Park_David/park-biography.html
