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Daphne
Daphne

Daphne

Artist David Park American, 1911–1960
Date1959
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsheight, width, and depth: 74 3/4 × 57 3/8 × 1 1/4 in. (189.9 × 145.7 × 3.2 cm)
height, width, and depth (Framed): 76 1/4 × 59 × 2 1/2 in. (193.7 × 149.9 × 6.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton
Object number2025.1.1
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated Berkeley, CA, 1959. [Maxwell Galleries, Ltd., San Francisco]; Mary (1929-2014) and James R. Patton, Jr. (1928-2020), September 1976; given to NCMA, 2025.Published ReferencesHelen Park Bigelow, David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back (New York and Manchester: Hudson Hills Press, 2009), illus. (color) 118, fig. 80.

Nancy Boas, David Park: A Painter's Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), mentioned 253, briefly discussed 269, illus. (b-w) 268, fig. 75.

Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton, exhibition catalogue, (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2001), 65, no. 18.
Exhibition HistorySpace, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton, Ackland Art Museum, September 9–November 11, 2001.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Artist's Models," November 4, 2024–present.
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