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David Park: A Retrospective Audio Guide

David Park, Couple, 1959; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Partial gift of the Morgan Flagg Family Foundation; © Estate of David Park; courtesy Natalie Park Schutz, Helen Park Bigelow, and Hackett Mill, San Francisco

“Art ought to be a troublesome thing,” David Park declared, after taking all of his abstract canvases to a local dump and returning to figuration, shocking his peers. Park greatly influenced the course of Bay Area art by initiating this historic new direction. Learn more about Park — the artist and the person — in this special audio guide.