Dan Christensen New York Abstract Expressionist Colorfield Lyrical Abstraction Original Vintage American Acrylic Painting
Dan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in Cozad, Nebraska, on October 6, 1942, he passed away in Easthampton, New York, on January 20, 2007. He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Colorfield painting, and Abstract Expressionism.
His early work from 1965-1966 was related to Minimalism. A graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute, class of 1964, Dan Christensen moved to New York City, from the Mid-West, during the late summer of 1965. Christensen was represented by several influential galleries including the Andre Emmerich Gallery, the Salander/O'Reilly Gallery and various others throughout the United States and Europe. He has had more than seventy-five solo exhibitions and his work has been included in hundreds of group exhibitions. His paintings are in important museum collections throughout the United States and Europe.
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. With his friend from Iowa - the painter David Wagner, he rented a loft on Great Jones Streen in lower Manhattan. After several months of experimenting on new abstract paintings with interlocking rectangular "L" shapes in shades of tan, grey, ochre and brown that resembled jigsaw puzzles in oil paint, he began to use acrylic paint. Christensen began painting the series of abstract paintings for which he became first known - his Minimal "Bar" paintings in the spring of 1966. After Dave Wagner returned to Iowa in March 1966, his friend the painter Ronnie Landfield shared his Great Jones Street loft with him until the early winter of 1967.
Dan Christensen was part of a large circle of young artists, who came to Manhattan during the 1960s. Kenneth Showell, Peter Young, Michael Steiner, Ronnie Landfield, Dick Anderson, his brother Don Christensen, Peter Reginato, Carlos Villa, David R. Prentice, James Monte, Frosty Myers, Tex Wray, Larry Zox, Larry Poons, Robert Povlich, Neil Williams, Carl Gliko, Billy Hoffman, Francine Tint, Lee Lozano, Pat Lipsky, John Griefen, Brice Marden, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Carl Andre', Dan Graham, Robert Smithson, Robert Raushenberg, Andy Warhold, Kenneth Noland, Clement Greenberg, Bob Neuwirth, Joseph Kosuth, Mark di Suvero, Brigid Berlin, Lawrence Weiner, Rosemarie Castoro, Marjorie Strider, Dorothea Rockburne, Colette, and Marisol, were just a few of the artists he saw regularly at Max's Kansas City- the favorite place for artists in New York City, during the 1960s.
Christensen's abstract paintings changed and evolved throughout his career. During the final ten years of his life he moved with his family to East Hampton, New York, from Manhattan. From November 2001 through February 2002 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, and New York City. In 2007, he had a retrospective exhibition at the Spanierman Gallery, in Manhattan. His paintings are in the permanent collections of The Whitney Museum of American 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, the Chicago Art Institute, the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, Missouri, Boca Raton Museum of Art, as well as many others.
Dan Christensen
(1942-2007)
American Abstract Painter
Hand Signed in the Corner
Dated '84
No overpaints, or restoration. Painting has some light marks, and some darkening in the corners, due to age. Painting has some light impressions. Please email for a full condition report.
39.4"X49.2"
(This is one painting of a set of two we have available, by Dan Christensen)
Lyrical Abstraction, Color Field, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism
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