David Park

Art Brokerage: David Park American Artist: b. 1911-1960 David Park was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1911, and moved out to California after his failure to graduate from high school caused embarrassment to his father. At his aunt's urging, Park attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 1928-1929. David Park found work with the Federal Arts Project, and by 1935 was gaining recognition as an artist. David Park's work was a constant evolution of styles, ranging in chronological order from, genre Scenes, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, and richly expressive Figurative works for which he is best remembered. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 17, 1911, the son of the Reverend Charles Edward Park and Mary (Turner) Park. He attended the Loomis School in Windsor, Connecticut but very early discovered what he most wanted to do, and at the age of seventeen he came west in pursuit of his destiny. He studied at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles for a year, not before having exhibited in Boston, aged fifteen and sixteen, with the New England Society of Independent Artists, where also his maturer work appeared a decade later while he headed the Art Department of the Windsor School in Boston. Meanwhile, he had taught at the Greenwood and the Bentley Schools in Berkeley and in the Extension Division of the University of California. He taught in the University's Summer Sessions at Berkeley in 1948 and was a member of the Faculty of the California School of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1952, acting as Director in the Summer of 1950. For some time his merit as an effective teacher and a ponderable artistic force had been demonstrated, and he joined the University faculty. Listings wanted.