David Band’s Happiness

Regardless of illness and impending death, the Scottish-born artist and graphic designer David Band was not, by all accounts, devoid of joy. In the last handful of years of his life, Band, who died in 2012 at the age of 51, developed a series of acrylic paintings and prints to which he assigned the title Happiness repeatedly. It’s simple to read numerous factors into the final paintings of a dying artist, but it may possibly be very best to take Band’s simple expressions of Happiness—most of which feature solitary flowers that bear a vague resemblance to the human form—at face worth.

Pictures: David Band Tim Olsen Gallery