DAVID PARK, PAINTER. Nothing Held Back

Bigelow, Helen Park. Foreword by Richard Armstrong. David Park

ISBN 10: 1555953204 / ISBN 13: 9781555953201

Published by Hudson Hills Press, LLC, Manchester, Vermont, 2009

About this Item

1st edition, 2009. A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket. 4to., 207 pp., 92 color plates, 22 halftones, bound in publishers blue cloth with illustrated white dust jacket. Minor signs of shelf wear only. Previous owners name inside front cover otherwise text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. David Park was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.

Seller Inventory # 36970

Bibliographic Details

• Title: DAVID PARK, PAINTER. Nothing Held Back
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Press, LLC, Manchester, Vermont
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1555953204
• ISBN 13: 9781555953201
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: David Park
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Art

About this title

Synopsis

―First full-length book in two decades devoted to the art and life of this important American artist. Includes more than 90 plates illustrating Park's development and career ―Park's paintings have seen a resurgence of interest among collectors and institutions, with 2009 exhibitions at Washington's Phillips Collection and Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center; pieces recently auctioned for $2.7 million at Christie's and $1.4 million at Sotheby's David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back chronicles the brief but remarkably prolific career of this American artist, who died in 1960 at age 49. He was an integral part of the San Francisco Bay art community from the early 1930s on, and is counted as one of the group of immensely gifted artists who made up the Bay Area Figurative Painting movement in its nascent years of the 1950s. A painter deeply committed to humanity as a subject in an era that exalted abstraction, Park's work can be startling for its depth of feeling even today. Writing about him recently, San Francisco critic Kenneth Baker noted: Park's freedom from irony will strike anyone sated by postmodernist flippancy as enviable and almost beyond achievement today.

About the Author

Helen Park Bigelow is the daughter of David Park, as well as a writer and potter. She and husband Edward B. Bigelow live in Hawaii, where she writes and teaches.