Object Record
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Artist |
Bates, David |
Title |
Blacktip Shark |
Medium |
Oil on canvas |
Description |
David Bates (Dallas 1952; lives and works in Dallas) Black Tip Shark, 1989 Oil on canvas 96 x 78 inches Knoxville Museum of Art, 1990 gift of Laila and Thurston Twigg-Smith, the Persis Corporation, and the Knoxville Journal David Bates finds inspiration in the relationship of humans to nature. In his work he explores the cultures of the South and the Southwest as emblematic of larger American narratives. He usually paints ordinary people who work in humble professions, such as the fisher folk as we see here. To him these people embody an earlier and idealized America. |
Catalog Number |
1990.05.01 |
Search Terms |
Oil paintings Men Fish Fishermen Paintings Canvas |