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Artist David Park American, 1911–1960

Date1960

MediumGouache on paper

DimensionsPaper: 12 x 9 3/4 in. (30.5 x 24.8 cm)
Frame: 17 x 14 1/8 x 3/4 in. (43.2 x 35.9 x 1.9 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.42

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ProvenanceCreated Berkeley, CA, 1960; collection of the artist; to wife, Lydia Park (later Moore) (d. 1990), 1960; [Staempfli Galleries, New York, by 1977]; [Maxwell Galleries, San Francisco]; Mary and James R. Patton Jr., Great Falls, VA, May 1978; given to NCMA, 2014.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, “David Park,” November 4, 1988–January 15, 1989; Laguna Beach, CA, Laguna Museum of Art, March 9–May 7, 1989; Oakland, CA, The Oakland Museum, May 20–August 6, 1989, cat. no. 71, illus.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Patton Collection: A Gift to North Carolina,” March 28–August 23, 2015.
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