David Bates

David Michael Bates (born 1952) is an American artist. He is based in Dallas and is known for his Texas-themed paintings, prints, and sculptures.

Biography David Michael Bates was born in 1952 in Dallas, Texas.

He is best known for his paintings of the Grassy Lakes region of Faulkner County, Arkansas, and the Gulf Coast. Whether painting on canvas or on his sculptures, Bates's work is characterized by bold, thick, lush brush strokes. Butchering the Hog, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist's use of bold broad brush strokes, in a way that is reminiscent of Naïve art.

Public collections holding works by Bates include the Art Museum of Southeast Texas (Beaumont), Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Dallas Museum of Art, the High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC), Speed Art Museum (Louisville), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City).

Publications Arthur, John, David Bates, 1992, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, 1992 Auping, Michael, David Bates: Southern Coast, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2017 Avery, Iustinus Tim, David Bates, Cel Publishing, 2011 Bates, David, Southern Coast, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2017 Conrad, Barnaby III, David Bates: The Tropics, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, 2008 Cozad, Rachel, David Bates. Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, Talley Dunn Publications, Dallas, TX, 2012 Little, Carl, David Bates: Paintings and Drawings, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, 2004 Little, Carl, David Bates: The Katrina Paintings, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010, Nash, Steven, David Bates, 1995: Sculpture, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, 1995 Oliver-Smith, Kerry, The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, 2000 Serwer, Jacquelyn Days, Art Meets Life: The New Work of David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 Spring, Justin, David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, 1999 Spring, Justin, David Bates, Scala for Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, 2008 Van Keuren, Philip, David Bates: Black & White, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, 2001 Van Keuren, Philip, David Bates: Poems, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX, 2003

Wei, Lilly, David Bates, DC Moore Gallery, New York, 2001