This generously illustrated volume is the first comprehensive
publication devoted to the powerfully expressive work of David Park
(1911-60). Best known as the founder of Bay Area Figurative art,
Park moved from Boston to California at the age of seventeen and
spent most of his adult life in and around San Francisco. In the
immediate postwar years, like many avant-garde American artists, he
engaged with Abstract Expressionism and painted non-objectively. In
a moment of passion in 1949, he made the radical decision to
abandon nearly all of his abstract canvases at the Berkeley city
dump and return to the human figure, in so doing marking the
beginning of the Bay Area Figurative movement. The astonishingly
powerful paintings he made in the decade that followed brought
together his long-held interest in classic subjects such as
portraiture, domestic interiors, musicians, rowers, and bathers
with lush, gestural paint handling and an extraordinary sense of
color. In 1958-59 Park reached his expressive peak, reveling in the
sensuous qualities of paint to create intensely physical,
psychologically charged, and deeply felt canvases. This fertile
period cut short by illness in 1960, Park transferred his creative
energy to other mediums when he could no longer work on canvas. In
the last months of his life, bedridden, he produced an
extraordinary thirty-foot-long felt-tip-pen scroll and a poignant
series of gouaches. Published to accompany the first major museum
exhibition of Park's work in more than thirty years, David Park: A
Retrospective traces the full arc of the artist's career, from his
early social realist and cubist-inspired efforts of the 1930s to
his mature figurative paintings of the 1950s and his astounding
final works on paper. An overview of Park's full body of work by
Janet Bishop, SFMOMA's Thomas Weisel Family Curator of Painting and
Sculpture, will be joined by approximately ninety full-color plates
of paintings and works on paper; an essay by Tara McDowell on the
figure drawing sessions held by Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Elmer
Bischoff, Frank Lobdell, and others in their studios starting in
1953; short essays on Park's scroll, his gouaches, and the
portraits that Imogen Cunningham and Park made of each other; and
an illustrated chronology. Published in association with the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition schedule: Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth: June 2-September 8, 2019 Kalamazoo Institute
of Arts: December 21, 2019-March 15, 2020 San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art: October 4, 2020-January 18, 2021
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