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Don OlsenVariation #5circa 1960 - 1969
circa 1960 - 1969
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Variation #5, by Don Olsen. Oil on canvas, 64 x 86 x 1 inches (unframed, gallery wrapped canvas), $25,000
Previously owned (purchased directly from artist), excellent condition.
Don Olsen has been called one of the most persuasive figures of non-objective art in Utah from the 1950s to the 1980s. Because of his dedication to modernism, the development of his painting style has paralleled contemporary art's evolution. He has experimented with almost every contemporary style of painting from the “brushed-action painting“ of Abstract Expressionism, to the “hard-edge“ of Minimalism.
According to James Haseltine, “Following his marriage to Betty in 1962, Don Olsen did some of his more lively work, a series of canvases dominated by white used as positive shape, negative passage or ground, dripped line, or textural splatter. His colors are most often used unmixed, directly from the tube, alla prima, with reds most prominent and blues, greens and yellows playing a secondary role.“
A classical violinist turned abstract painter, Donald Olsen is considered the most significant of the “second generation“ of the Utah modernists. Don Olsen was born in Provo, Utah, on the 3rd of December, 1910. He did his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University and then continued his education at the University of Utah. After graduation, Olsen taught at Provo, Lincoln, and Jordan High Schools, and later at the College of Southern Utah, where he taught music and art. He also was an art instructor at the Art Barn in Salt Lake City.
An unpretentious, sensitive, and intellectual man, Don Olsen was the leading exponent in Utah of nonobjective and experimental art. In his own words, his philosophy of painting is simply stated.
“Painting is not an illusion. A painting can only be itself; it does not simulate, borrow from, or pretend to be anything outside itself. It is a real thing and its reality lies in being itself. A painting reveals the internal expression of the artist and has nothing to do with observation of visual facts.“
Biography adopted from Springville Museum of Art.
- Creator:Don Olsen (1910 - 1983, American)
- Creation Year:circa 1960 - 1969
- Dimensions:Height: 64 in (162.56 cm)Width: 86 in (218.44 cm)
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- Framing:Framing Options Available
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- Gallery Location:Salt Lake City, UT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU154329077322
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