DAVID PARK 1911 Born in Boston, MA 1960 Died in Berkeley, Education 1928-29 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, Teaching 1955-60 Associate Professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1944-52 Instructor, California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco, 1950 Director, California School of Fine Arts (now the San Francisco Art Institute), San Francisco, Solo Exhibitions 2008 David Park: Works on Paper 1930-1960, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, 2007 Art 20, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY 2006 David Park: The 1930s and 40s, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, 2003 A Singular Humanity, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, 1998 David Park: Selected Paintings, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, 1994 David Park: Fixed Subjects, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, 1989 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled to The Oakland Museum of
1988 David Park: Works on Paper, Stanford University Museum and Art Gallery, Stanford, 1987 David Park (1911-1960), Salander-O Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 1986 Recent Acquisitions: 6 Paintings by David Park, The Oakland Museum of 1985 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 1983 David Park 1911-1960: Paintings and Drawings, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York, NY 1977 David Park 1911-1960, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, ; traveled to The Oakland Museum of 1976 A Retrospective Exhibition, Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, 1974 David Park: Oils, Gouaches, Drawings, Adele Bednarz Galleries, Los Angeles, 1973 David Park: An Exhibition of Oil Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco, 1970 David Park: A Retrospective Exhibition, Staempfli Gallery, San Francisco, 1968 David Park: His World 1911-1960, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, A Tribute to David Park, San Jose College Art Department, San Jose, 1966 David Park: University Years 1955, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, 1964 David Park Memorial Exhibition: The University Years 1955-1960, University Art Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, ; traveled to Dickson Art Center, University of California, Los Angeles, ; Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1963 David Park Watercolors, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY 1961 David Park 1911-1960: Retrospective Exhibition, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, TN; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; The Oakland Museum of ; University of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, MN; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, IL; Washington University, St. Louis, MO
David Park: Gouaches and Drawings, La Jolla Art Center, Artists Cooperative Gallery, Sacramento, 1959 David Park: Recent Paintings, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, May Formal: David Park Decors and Costume Design, Department of Music, University of California, Berkeley, 1956 College of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1955 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, 1954 Paul Kantor Gallery, Los Angeles, 1953 Paintings by David Park, King Ubu Gallery, San Francisco, 1946 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1939 Oils by David Park, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, New Gallery, Boston, MA 1936 Stencil Prints from Genesis and Watercolors by David Park, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Delphic Studios, New York, NY 1934 East-West Gallery, San Francisco, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, Group Exhibitions 2014 David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Nathan Oliveira, Manuel Neri: Figures and Landscapes, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Fertile Ground: Art and Community in California, The Oakland Museum of Bischoff, Brown, Diebenkorn, De Niro Sr., Lobdell, Neri, Oliveira, Park, Hackett Mill, San Francisco, Five West Coast Artists: Bischoff, Diebenkorn, Neri, Park, and Thiebaud, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT 2013 Summer Show, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, The Bay Area School Paintings: California Artists from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, UK
2012 Expressions in Color: Selections from the 20 th -Century Collection, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champaign, IL 2009 Abstract and Figurative: Highlights of Bay Area Painting, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, Paint Made Flesh, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. Independent Visions: American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2007 Modernisms, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY A Culture in the Making, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, 2006 The Figure in Context: Bay Area Figurative Art, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, 2005 Spring Bay Area Figuration Show, California State University, Sacramento University Library Gallery, Sacramento, 2000 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1999 Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute: Artists Who Transformed American Culture, Hackett-Freedman Gallery, San Francisco, 1990 Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1984 Underknown: Twelve Artists Re-seen in 1984, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Brooklyn, NY The Figurative Mode: Bay Area Painting, The Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, The Art of California: Selected Works from the Collection of the Oakland Museum, The Oakland Museum of 1982 Realism and Realities: The Other Side of American Painting, 1940-1960, Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ; traveled to Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, 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, 1977 Archives of American Art: California Collecting, The Oakland Museum of Selection from the Lawrence H. Bloedel Bequest, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1976 Figure as Form, American Painting 1930-1975, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL; traveled to Florida Center for the Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Columbus Museum of Arts and Crafts, Columbus, GA 1975 Tribute to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, 1973 A Period of Exploration, San Francisco 1945-1950, The Oakland Museum of 1970 A Century of California Painting, Crocker Citizens Plaza, Los Angeles, ; traveled to Fresno Art Center, Fresno, ; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, ; De Saissaet Gallery, University of Santa Clara, ; E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento, ; The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, 1968 On Looking Back, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1966 Four California Painters, J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, MI 1965 American Paintings from the Bloedel Collection, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK; traveled to Chelsea School of Art, London, UK 1964 Between the Fairs, 25 Years of American Art, 1939-1964, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1962 The Artist's Environment: The West Coast, The Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX; traveled to University of California, Los Angeles, ; The Oakland Museum of 1961 Provisional Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA Vanguard American Painting, American Embassy, USIS Gallery, London, UK 1960 Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, Staempfli Gallery, New York, NY Florida State University, Permanent Collection, Tallahassee, FL 1959 Paintings and Sculpture, San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco, Second Biennial of American Painting and Sculpture, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; traveled to Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1957 Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painting, including paintings by Richard Diebenkorn and David Park from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., The Oakland Museum of ; traveled to the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH American Paintings 1945-1957, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
Contemporary Bay Area Figurative Painters, The Oakland Museum of Directions - Bay Area Painting - 1957, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, 1952 Contemporary American Painting, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 1951 San Francisco Art Association 70th Annual, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 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, San Francisco, 1936 56th Annual Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, 1935 Paintings by Bay Region Artists, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, Selected Public Collections Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley, California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, di Rosa Preserve: Art & Nature, Napa, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, The Hallmark Fine Art Collection, Kansas City, MO Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, The Oakland Museum of Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, VA