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David Park

David Park (1911 - 1960) was active/lived in California.  David Park is known for Bay Area figurative painting, murals.

The following biography is from Natalie Park Schutz, a daughter of David Park, who also credits her sister Helen Park Bigelow.

David Park's father was Charles Edwards Park, an esteemed Unitarian minister at the First Church in Boston (now called First and Second Church in Boston, and now Unitarian-Universalist) for all David's life.  It is in the Back Bay, where the family lived in a brick row house on Marlborough Street.  David had one older sister and two brothers, one older, and one 6 years younger, writer Edwards Park.  The family was close knit, with cousins on all sides.  Summers were spent at a house in the woods outside of Peterborough, New Hampshire.

David was determined from early childhood to become an artist.  Though his parents expected him to follow the family's New England tradition and achieve a proper education, he was an unhappy and reluctant student while at Loomis prep school, and didn't attend Yale as did his fathe   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 16338 characters.]  Artist bio

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Research resources

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Facts about David Park

   Publications  Book References:  70
Magazine References:  9

The listed publications are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. askART has derived Publications as an aid to members, but it is not necessarily a complete list.
9 Miscellaneous Magazine References for David Park
Magazine Article Date Author Color
Art in America Review of Exhibitions April 2004 Editors, Art in America Yes
ARTnews Reviews January 2004 Editors, ARTnews Yes
Art & Antiques Gallery Watch September 2003 Editor, Art & Antiques Yes
Southwest Art Art Events - California September 2003 Gangelhoff, Bonnie Yes
Art-Talk Contemporary Auctions Set Artist December 2002 Editors, ART-TALK Yes
Art in America Assessing the Golden State April 2001 Duncan, Michael Yes
Art & Auction Marketplace February 2001 Editors, Art & Auction Yes
American Art Review Lighter Side of Bay Area Figurative October 2000 Landauer, Susan Yes
ARTFORUM Preview Fall 2000 September 2000 Editors, ARTForum Yes
70 Book References for David Park
Year Author Title Pages Color
2016 Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
360 Yes
2012 Boas, Nancy M. David Park: A Painter's Life 392 Yes
2007 Wechsler, Jeffrey (Hollis Taggart Galleries) Pathways and Parallels: Roads to Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
112 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2002 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California: 1786-1940 (Two Volumes)
Available For Sale.
1249 No
2002 McClelland, Gordon T; Jay T. Last California Watercolors 1850-1970, An Illustrated History & Biographical Dictionary 231 Yes
2000 Landauer, Susan Lighter Side of Bay Area Figurative 70 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1998 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall California Art: 450 Years of Painting & Other Media 560 Yes
1997 Burgard, Timothy Anglin Bay Area Art From Morgan Flagg Collection 47 Yes
1997 Lucie-Smith, Edward Visual Arts in the 20th Century 400 Yes
1996 Landauer, Susan The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism
(Exhibition catalog)
271 Yes
1995 Adams, H. and Johnson, K. Made in America Ten Centuries of American Art 192 Yes
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being 496 Yes
1995 Nash, Steven A Facing Eden: 100 Years of Landscape Art in Bay Area 216 Yes
1994 Lucie-Smith, Edward American Realism 240 Yes
1993 Eitner, Lorenz (others) The Drawing Collection Stanford University Museum of Art 418 Yes
1993 Laguna Art Museum 75 Works, 75 Years Collecting the Art of California
(Exhibition catalog)
139 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)
1117 No
1990 Jones, Caroline Bay Area Figurative Art 1950-1965
(Exhibition catalog)
231 Yes
1990 Schwartz, Sanford Artists and Writers 322 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)
538 No
1989 Hughes, Edan Milton Artists in California, 1786-1940 637 No
1989 Maass, R. Andrew (Foreward); Valerie Ann Leeds (Intro) At the Water's Edge: 19th and 20th Century American Beach Scenes Tampa Museum of Art
(Exhibition catalog)
140 Yes
1989 Ward, John L American Realist Painting 1945-1980 431 No
1988 Armstrong, Richard David Park
(Exhibition catalog)
152 Yes
1988 Berggruen, John John Berggruen Gallery Works on Paper
(Exhibition catalog)
97 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Mills, Paul David Park The New Figurative Art of... 126 Yes
1987 Cummings, Paul Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition) 653 No
1987 Park, David (others) David Park 1911-1960 Exhibition Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors
(Exhibition catalog)
38 No
1985 Albright, Thomas Art in the San Francisco Bay Area 1945-1980/An Illustrated History 349 Yes
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection 402 Yes
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Baigell, Mathew American Painting and Sculpture A Concise History 420 No
1984 Moure, Nancy Dustin Wall Southern California Art Publication 3, Dictionary 291 No
1984 Orr-Cahill, Christina The Art of California Selected Works/ Oakland Museum 199 Yes
1982 Berman, Greta/Jeffrey Wechsler Realism and Realities The Other Side of American Painting 1940-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
195 Yes
1982 Terra Museum of American Art Solitude Inner Visions in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)
41 Yes
1981 Armstrong, Tom Amerikanische Malerei 1930-1980
(Exhibition catalog)
301 Yes
1981 Baird, Joseph Armstrong Jr From Exposition to Exposition Northern California Painting 1915-1939
(Exhibition catalog)
88 No
1981 Goodyear, Frank H, Jr. Contemporary American Realism Since 1960 (Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts) 255 Yes
1981 Nygren, Edward/Julie R Myers Of Time and Place American Figurative Art from the Corcoran Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)
196 Yes
1981 Pope, Annemarie H Lawrence H Bloedel Collection Loan Exhibition/Whitney/Williams College
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1981 Rugoff, Milton The Britannica Encyclopedia of American Art 669 Yes
1980 Styron, Thomas W American Figure Painting 1950-198
(Exhibition catalog)
115 Yes
1979 Baigell, Mathew Dictionary of American Art 390 No
1979 West, Richard (Essay); Alfred Neumeyer; Joseph A. Baird, Jr. Crocker Art Museum: Handbook of Paintings 202 Yes
1978 Sandler, Irving The New York School The Painters & Sculptors of the Fifties 366 Yes
1977 Barr, Alfred H Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art 655 No
1977 Mills, Paul Chadbourne David Park 1911-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
62 Yes
1977 Whitney Museum Lawrence H Bloedel Bequest Selections and Related Works 56 No
1976 Anderson, Dennis R (Introductory Essay) Three Hundred Years of American Art In The Chrysler Museum
(Exhibition catalog)
270 Yes
1976 Cummings, Paul American Drawings The 20th Century 207 No
1976 San Francisco Mus Modern Art Painting & Sculpture in California The Modern Era 272 Yes
1975 Editor, Smithsonian Smithsonian Archives of American Art: Checklist of the Collection 0 No
1975 Santa Fe Festival of the Arts Santa Fe Collects
(Exhibition catalog)
64 Yes
1974 Baur, John I H Whitney Museum of American Art Catalogue of the Collection 235 Yes
1974 Plagens, Peter Sunshine Muse Contemporary Art on the West Coast 200 Yes
1973 Davidson, Marshall The Artist's America American Heritage History of 416 Yes
1968 Robbins, Daniel/David W Scott An American Collection The Neuberger Collection 463 Yes
1968 Santa Barbara Museum of Art David Park/His World
(Exhibition catalog)
16 Yes
1964 Baur, John I H Between the Fairs: 25 Years of American Art 1939-1964
(Exhibition catalog)
91 Yes
1964 Mills, Paul David Park Memorial Exhibition The University Years 1955-1960
(Exhibition catalog)
32 Yes
1961 Goodrich, Lloyd/John I H Baur American Art of Our Century 309 Yes
1958 Art Bank of the SFAA San Francisco Art Association Painting and Sculpture (in) 87 No
1956 Long Beach Muni Art Center California Painting 40 Painters 90 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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