MEASUREMENTS:16"HX20"W NO FRAME, GOOD CONDITION, SHOWS AGE/"in the style of"David Park was an American painter and a pioneer of the Bay Area Figurative Movement in painting during the 1950s.Park worked with figurative painting from about 1950 until about 1959 when he became ill with cancer. Usually working from memory, he initially painted what he saw: kids playing in the street, musicians, his friends, people in their houses. Toward the end of the decade he painted classical studio nudes and bathers in a monumental style. After he became too ill to work with oils, he continued working with watercolors which he produced until his early death in 1960, at the age of 49, of cancer. Park was working at the University of California as an Associate Professor of Art up until he died./Private collection, no documentation.