The Dock Builder
Date1987
Artist
David Bates
(American painter, born 1952)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions72 × 60 in. (182.9 × 152.4 cm)
frame: 73 1/2 × 61 1/2 × 3 in. (186.7 × 156.2 × 7.6 cm)
frame: 73 1/2 × 61 1/2 × 3 in. (186.7 × 156.2 × 7.6 cm)
Credit LineF. V. du Pont Acquisition Fund, 1988
Object number1988-156
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextA native Texan, David Bates was influenced early by his experiences of the land and people of the southern state. Bates renders the cypress swamp, snake, and musculature of the carpenter with a technique reminiscent of the American modernists he admires: Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986), Arthur Dove (1880–1946), and Marsden Hartley (1877–1943).
