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Dan Christensen
(
American
, 1942–2007)
Dan Christensen
Untitled,
1983
2,400 USD
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Timeline
1942
Born in Cozad, NE
1964
BFA, Kansas City Art Institute
1967 - 1968
Studied art at the University of Nebraska
1968
National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1969
Guggenheim Fellowship Theodoran Award
1986
Gottlieb Foundation Grant
1991
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grant for painting
1992
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1996
New York Foundation for the Arts painting fellowship award
2007
Died in Easthampton, NY
Exhibitions
2013
Sponder Gallery, Miami
2012
Dan Christensen: The Early Sprays, 1967-1969, Spanierman Modern, NY (catalog) (solo)
2011
Dan Christensen: Bars and Scrapes, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (catalog) (solo)
Dan Christensen: The Stain Paintings, Spanierman Modern, NY, (catalog) (solo)
Dan Christensen at the Armory Show, presented by Spanierman Modern (solo)
2010
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton
2009 - 2010
Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting - Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE (solo)
Hand to Paper: The quiet sublimity of works on paper, LewAllen Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Spanierman at East Hampton – Gallery Selections, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Dan Christensen: Lyrical Spray Canvases, 1960’s to the 1990’s, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (solo)
2009
Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting, Spanierman Gallery (solo)
Dan Christensen: Forty Years of Painting, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri (solo)
2008
Loveparade 2 - Häusler Contemporary - Munich, Munich
High Times, Hard Times. New York Painting 1967–1975 - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
Gallery Selections - Spanierman Modern, New York City, NY
Elaine Baker Gallery, Boca Raton
Los Angeles Art Show (exhibited by LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM) at Barker Hangar, Santa Monica, CA
Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Spanierman Modern, New York, NY (solo)
“High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975,” National Academy Museum, New York, NY (solo)
2007
High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Dan Christensen: PURE PAINTING, A Forty-Year Retrospective (1966-2006), LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico (solo)
2006
On Paper -- From Sketch to Showpiece, Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Long Island Abstraction 1950s to Present, Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, New York
High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Group Show, Leif Hope’s Restaurant, 31 Race Lane, East Hampton, New York
High Times Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-1975, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
Pamela Williams Gallery, Amagansett, NY (solo)
Artists and Nature on Eastern Long Island: 1940s to the Present, Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Pamela Wilson Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Then and Now, Remy Toldedo Gallery, New York, NY
Wilder – A tribute to Nocholas Wilder Gallery, Joan T. Washburn Gallery and Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
Art and the Garden, Post-War and Contemporary Paintings of the Garden, curated by Ronny Cohen, Spanierman Gallery, East Hampton, New York
2005
Dan Christensen: A Survey of Paintings and Graphics, Skot Foreman Fine Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Works on Paper, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2004
Black and White, Lizan-Tops, East Hampton, New York
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York
2003
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2002 - 2003
Selections from a Retrospective, Parish Museum of Art, Southampton, New York, NY
Lizan Tops Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Einfach Kunst, Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany
Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Edmonton Contemporary Artists Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
2002
Big Paintings, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
2001 - 2002
Dan Christensen: A Forty Year Survey, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2001
Big Canvas – Paintings from the Permanent Collection, Sheldon
Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Three East End Artists, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
2000
Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
OM, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
The Art of Absolute Desire, New York, NY
1999
Paintings From The 90’s, Salander O’Reilly Gallery, New York (solo)
1998
Richard Bellamy Memorial Show, P. S. 1, New York, NY
Abstraction II, Salander-O’Reilly Gallery, New York, NY
The Fanelli Show, O. K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY
Regatta 98, Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
CS. Schulte Galleries, Millburn, New Jersey (solo)
Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (solo)
Christmas at the Prado, Plan eat Thailand, Brooklyn, NY
Some Artists We Like, Robert Steele Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Intimate Universe(Revisited), Robert Steele Gallery, New York, N.Y.
Abstracted and Unfixed, Art In General, New York, N.Y.
Automatic, Plan eat Thailand, Brooklyn, N.Y. (two person show)
1997
Intimate Universe, James Howe Fine Arts Gallery of Kean University, Union, N.J.
1996
Miracle on Bedford St., Plan eat Thailand, Brooklyn, NY
1995
Plants, Animals, and Small Abstractions, Margulies Taplin Gallery, Miami, FL
Seven Painters, Nicholas Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1994
1969: A Year Reconsidered, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gallery ISM, Seoul, Korea (solo)
Eight Painters: Abstraction in the Nineties, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Small Paintings: Big Issues, Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY
Important Works by Modern Masters, CS. Schulte Galleries, Millburn, New Jersey
1993
ACA Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
Eva Cohon Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (solo)
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York (solo)
Celebrating Formalism, CS. Schulte Galleries, South Orange, New Jersey
1992
Les heros de la peinture americaine: L’exhibition inaugurale, Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France
Vered Art Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1991
Present Tense, Springs Art Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Beverly Hills, California (With John Griefen) (solo)
Before the Field: Paintings from the 60’s, Daniel Newburgh Gallery, New York
1990
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York, NY (solo)
1989
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Florida (solo)
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, New York (solo)
Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Important Works on Paper, Meredith Long & Company, Houston, Texas
1988
Farbfeldmalerei New York 1968 (with Lawrence Stafford and Peter Young), Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, West Germany
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Gone Fishing, Graham Modern Gallery, New York, NY
Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan (with sculptor Jay
Soghor, Leonard & Associates, New York, NY
Opening Exhibition, Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY
10th Season Gala Opening, Vered Art Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987
Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1986
Artists of the Region Invitational, Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
1985
Centennial Celebration: Highlights from Kansas City Art Institute Alumni Exhibition, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Baruch College Gallery, New York, NY
Pop Op Plus, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas
Philip Johnson: Selected Gifts, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Meredith Long & Company, Houston, TX (solo)
Bank of America, San Francisco
Il punto blu, Southampton, New York, NY (solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
Dan Christensen: Paintings, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (solo)
Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1984
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
Adam L. Gimbel Gallery, New York, NY
Special Projects, curated by Dick Bellamy, P. S. 1, Brooklyn, New York
Oil & Steel Gallery, New York, NY
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
1983
Lincoln Center Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, Colorado (solo)
1982
Color II, Martha White Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
Points of View: 1982, The University of Oklahoma at Norman
Kenneth G. Heffel Fine Art, Inc., Vancouver, British Columbia
Ivory/Kimpton Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture II: 1950-1981, Oil & Steel Gallery, New York
46th Annual National Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami, Florida (solo)
Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas (solo)
Works on Paper, Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
Harcus Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (solo)
Gallery 700, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (solo)
1981
New Work on Paper I, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (also shown at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas and at the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California)
Sarah Y. Rentschler Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
Dealer’s Choice, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
1980
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
University of Nebraska at Omaha Art Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska (solo)
Meredith Long and Company, Houston, Texas (solo)
Meredith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Dan Christensen/Carl Gliko – Recent Paintings, Carson-Sapiro Gallery, Denver, Colorado
Works on Paper, Salander O-Reilly Galleries, Inc., New York, NY
1979
Meredith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
1978
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
Meredith Long Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1977
B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, MD (solo)
Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City (solo)
1976
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1975
Flaming Youth, 75 Warren St. Gallery, New York, NY
Report from SoHo, Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
1974
Contemporary American Colorfield Painting, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Rothman’s Art Gallery, Stratford, Ontario (solo)
1973
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada (solo)
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1972
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1971
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Six Painters, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (also shown at the Baltimore Museum of Art in Maryland, 1971-72, and at the Milwaukee Art Center in Wisconsin, 1972)
1970
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1969
Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1968
Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, NY
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1967
Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Public Collections
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Ludwig Collection in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, Illinois
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Ludwig Collection in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, Kansas
Robert Rowan Collection, Pasadena, California
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D. C.
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
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Literature
1981
Elderfield, John. New Work on Paper. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1981 (catalogue)
