John Berggruen Gallery
David Park
Biography
Born: Boston, MassachusettsEducation:
1928-29 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1941-53 Instructor, California School of Fine Arts
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1989 David Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1988 “David Park: Works on Paper,” Stanford University Museum and Art Gallery, Stanford, CA
1986 “Recent Acquisitions, 6 Paintings by David Park,” The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1985 “David Park” Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1983 “David Park, Selected Paintings and Drawings,” Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY
1977-78 “David Park Retrospective Exhibition,” Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, CA; The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1974 “David Park: Oils, Gouaches, Drawings,” Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1973 “David Park: An Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors,” Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1970 “David Park: a Retrospective Exhibition,” Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, CA
1968 “David Park: His World,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1964-65 “David Park Memorial Exhibition: The University Years 1955-1960," University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA; Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1963 “David Park Watercolors,” Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
1962 “David Park 1911-1960 Retrospective Exhibition,” Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Oakland Art Museum, Oakland, CA; University of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL
1959 “David Park: Recent Paintings,” Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY
M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1955 Richmond Art Center, CA
1954 Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1946 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1940 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1939 New Gallery of Boston, Boston, MA
1936 Delphic Studios, New York, NY
1935 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions:
1984 “Underknown: Twelve Artists Re-seen in 1984,” The Institute for Art and Urban Resources (P.S.I.), Brooklyn, NY
“The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting,” The Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1982 “Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960,” Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, AL; Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, NY; Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1980 “Bay Area Figurative Works,” California State College, Stanislaus, Turlock, CA
1977 “Archives of American Art: California Collecting,” The Oakland Museum, CA
“Selection from the Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest,” The Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1976 “Figure as Form, American Painting 1930-1975,” Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; Florida Center for the Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, GA
1975 "Tribute to the San Francisco Art Institute,” Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 “A Period of Exploration, San Francisco 1945-1950,” The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1970 “A Century of California Painting,” Crocker Citizens Plaza, Los Angeles, CA; Fresno Art Center, Fresno, CA; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA; De Saissaet Gallery, University of Santa Clara, CA; E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1968 “On Looking Back,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
1966 “Four California Painters,” J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit
1965 “American Paintings from the Bloedel Collection,” Leeds City Art Gallery, England; Chelsea School of Art, London
1964 “Between the Fairs, 25 Years of American Art, 1939-1964,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1962 “The Artist's Environment: The West Coast,” The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; University of California, Los Angeles; The Oakland Museum,California
1961 “Provisional Collection,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Vanguard American Painting,” American Embassy, USIS Gallery, London
1960 “Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park,” Staempfli Gallery, New York
Florida State University, Permanent Collection
1959-60 “Paintings and Sculpture,” San Francisco Art Association
“Second Biennial of American Painting and Sculpture,” Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
1957-58 “Contemporary Figurative Painting,” including paintings by Richard Diebenkorn and David Park from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.” The Oakland Art Museum; Dayton Art Institute
1957 “American Paintings 1945-1957,” Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota
“Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painters,” Oakland Art Museum, California
“Directions - Bay Area Painting - 1957,” Richmond Art Center, California
1951 “San Francisco Art Association 70th Annual,” San Francisco Museum of Art
1950 “Members' Exhibition,” M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco
1949 “Works of David Park, Elmer Bischoff and Hassel Smith,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor
1936 “56th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association,” San Francisco Museum of Art
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | David Park
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