David park

David Park (US 1911-1960), Table with Fruit, oil/canvas, 1951-52. Private collection. From the catalog of the exhibition "The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of California Painting and Sculpture," 11/22/03-2/15/04, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.

View Woman Reading (1957) By Park David; oil on canvas; 44 x 38½ in. (111.7 x 97.7 cm.); Signed; . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

David Park - Standing Male Nude In The Shower, 1955

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David Park (1911–1960) is one of those artists who isn’t widely known but whose work inspires a special loyalty and warmth of feeling among his admirers. The partisan flavor his very name can arouse is partly dependent, of course, on his not being a household name to begin with. But Park, who was based in Berkeley, California, and was, along with Richard Diebenkorn and Elmer Bischoff, one of the leading lights of what has been called “Bay Area” painting in the 1950s, makes some of us always…

"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…

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…

David Park "Boy Painting", 1957 (USA, Bay Area Figurative Movement, 20th cent.)