David Bates (American artist)

David Michael Bates (born 1952) is an American artist.

[1] David Michael Bates was born in 1952 in Dallas, Texas.

[2][3] He is best known for his paintings of the Grassy Lakes region of Faulkner County, Arkansas, and the Gulf Coast.

[4] Whether painting on canvas or on his sculptures, Bates's work is characterized by bold, thick, lush brush strokes.

[4] 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.