Dan Christensen, the American abstract painter, was born in
Cozad, Nebraska on October 6, 1942, he died in Easthampton, New York on January
20, 2007. He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction,
Color field 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.
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