David park

SFMOMA turns 75 this month. We’ve just published a new (and very beautiful) collection catalog, 75 Years of Looking Forward, highlighting, as the curators of The Anniversary Show and the catalog, Janet Bishop, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, write, both “the inarguably significant and the admittedly idiosyncratic” of the museum’s collecting, exhibiting, and presenting history. […]

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 (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.

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…

David Park was a painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative School of painting during the 1950s.

David Park, 'Rowboat', 1954-55, Oil on canvas.

Berggruen Gallery specializes in the exhibition and sale of 20th-century American and European paintings, drawings, sculpture, and limited edition prints.