Bus Stop

Artist David Park American, 1911–1960

Date1952

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions36 x 34 in. (91.4 x 86.4 cm)
Frame: 38 x 35 3/4 x 2 1/8 in. (96.5 x 90.8 x 5.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of Mary and Jim Patton

Object number2014.20.43

On View

Not on view

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.

Published ReferencesSidney Tillim, “Month in Review: New York Exhibitions,” Arts Magazine, Vol. 36 (March 1962), 6–40, illus. 37.

“Exhibit Raises Ackland’s Emphasis on Contemporary Art,” Carolina Alumni Review (Chapel Hill, NC), September/October 2001, 14, illus. (color).

Irving Sandler, “The Collectors as Patrons,” in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), 11–12, illus. (color) 11.

T. R. [Timothy Riggs], entry for Bus Stop in Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton (Chapel Hill: Ackland Art Museum, 2001), no. 17, illus. (color) 63.

Sanford Schwartz, “The Tender Art of David Park,” New York Review of Books, NYRblog (http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2009/nov/13/the-tender-art-of-david-park), November 13, 2009.

Nancy Boas, David Park: A Painter’s Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012), 152, 299, n.71, illus. (b-w) fig. 44.

Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Staempfli Gallery, “David Park 1911–1960: Retrospective Exhibition,” December 5–30, 1961; Boston, MA, January 10–February 11, 1962; Nashville, TN, Tennessee Fine Arts Center, February 24–March 31, 1962; Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, April 19–May 13, 1962; Oakland, CA, Oakland Art Museum, May 26–June 17, 1962; Minneapolis, MN, University of Minnesota Gallery, September 25–October 25, 1062; Urbana, IL, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, November 11–December 2, 1962, cat. no. 50, illus. (b-w).

Newport Beach, CA, Newport Harbor Art Museum, “David Park 1911–1960,” September 16–November 13, 1977, then traveling, no. 54 (lent courtesy of Staempfli Gallery).

New 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, no. 8, illus. (color) and discussed 34.

New York, NY, Knoedler & Co., “The Collector as Patron in the Twentieth Century,” May 2–July 31, 2000, listed 53.

Chapel Hill, NC, Ackland Art Museum, “Space, Abstraction and Freedom: Twentieth-Century Art from the Collection of Mary and Jim Patton,” September 9–November 11, 2001, no. 17, illus. (color) 63.

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

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Becoming the NCMA: 10 Decades of Collecting, 1924-2022," June 11-August 21, 2022.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–May 22, 2023. Object Rights Statement

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