Dan Christensen, was an American abstract painter He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting, and Abstract expressionism.
13 Facts About Dan Christensen
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Dan Christensen has had more than seventy-five solo exhibitions and his work has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions.
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Dan Christensen's paintings are in important museum collections throughout the United States and Europe.
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Dan Christensen arrived in New York City in the summer of 1965 from the Mid-West, with the purpose of establishing himself as an important contemporary abstract painter.
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Dan Christensen began painting the series of abstract paintings for which he became first known - his Minimal "Bar" paintings in the spring of 1966.
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Dan Christensen was part of a large circle of young artists who had come to Manhattan during the 1960s.
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Dan Christensen's paintings were included in the Whitney Museum of American Art's annual exhibition's in 1967,1968 and 1969 and in the first biennial exhibition in 1973.
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Dan Christensen's work was included in several important articles in the media about the newest generation of American artists.
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Dan Christensen's work was discussed and reviewed in The New York Times, Newsweek, Artforum, Art in America, Art News, and many other periodicals.
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From November 2001 through February 2002 Dan Christensen had a retrospective exhibition at The Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, Ohio; and shows of his paintings in galleries in Boca Raton, Florida, Houston, Texas, Santa Fe, New Mexico, New York City and in 2007 he had a retrospective exhibition at the Spanierman Gallery in Manhattan.
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Dan Christensen's paintings are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, DC.
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On January 18,2007 Dan Christensen enjoyed the opening of an important survey exhibition of paintings selected from his long painting career, spanning the years from 1966 until 2007 at the Spanierman Gallery on E 58th Street in Manhattan.
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Dan Christensen is survived by his wife Elaine Grove Christensen, and his three sons: Moses, James and William, his brother Don and his two sisters Marilyn and Kay.