Dan Christensen Paintings
American, 1942-2007
Dan Christensen, (October 6, 1942 – January 20, 2007) was an American abstract painter He is best known for paintings that relate to Lyrical Abstraction, Color field painting and Abstract expressionism.Christensen was born in Cozad, Nebraska, and died in Easthampton, New York. 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.to
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Artist: Dan Christensen
Dan Christensen "Pistachio", 1979
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost color abstractionists. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expa...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Untitled" Dan Christensen, Geometric Plaid Series, Orange and Blue Abstract
By Dan Christensen
Located in New York, NY
Dan Christensen
Untitled, circa 1970-71
Acrylic and enamel on canvas
44 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The artist
Sherron Francis (gift from the above)
Dan Christensen was an American abs...
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1970s Abstract Geometric Dan Christensen Paintings
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Enamel
Striker
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dan Christensen "Mango Fizz", 2002
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost color abstractionists. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expa...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
Dan Christensen "Sweaty", 2005
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost abstract artists. Over the course of his career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expanding the ...
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Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
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Mixed Media, Acrylic
Chwana
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Contemporary Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Autumn Park I
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Contemporary Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Graysland
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
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Canvas, Acrylic
Ice Rider 2
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Contemporary Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Java 1989 acrylic painting by Dan Christensen
By Dan Christensen
Located in Hudson, NY
Signed and dated "© D. Christensen 1989" with an orientation arrow verso. Medium "Acrylic on Canvas", title "Java", size "22 x 20" are all inscribed verso.
Dimensions of this artwo...
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1980s Abstract Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Dan Christensen "Igloo", 1984
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost color abstractionists. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expa...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Spark
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is recognized as a leader in American experimental abstraction.
After completing his BFA at the Kansas City Art Institute in 1964, he moved to New York C...
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1980s Abstract Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Blue Splash
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost color abstractionists. Over the course of forty years as an artist, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expanding the constantly shifting trends of 20th century abstraction.
Christensen established his reputation at the end of the 1960s, as began using spray guns to create colorful stacks, loops, and lines in his artworks. This body of work was considered by the legendary art critic Clement Greenberg among the most original abstract paintings of the decade.
Unlike many of his contemporaries who dedicated their practice to a signature style, Christensen was unrelentingly curious and allowed his dynamic version of abstraction to evolve as he tried new techniques and aesthetics.
During the 1980's and 1990's in particular, Christensen focused on experimenting with different forms of washing, spraying, and layering colours over top of each other. The works from Christensen's late period combine the gestural drama of Abstract Expressionism with the stained surface look popularized by the color field artists.
The aesthetic complexity he achieved with these combined techniques are perfectly demonstrated in this later untitled work (aka "Blue...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
Push
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost abstract artists. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expanding...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Untitled 488S5
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Indian Summer
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost abstract artist. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expanding the constantly shifting aesthetics of 20th century abstraction.
Christensen established his reputation at the end of the 1960s, by using spray guns to create colorful stacks, loops, and lines in his artworks. This body of work was considered by the legendary art critic Clement Greenberg among the most original abstract paintings of the decade.
Unlike many of his contemporaries who dedicated themselves to a signature style, Christensen was unrelentingly curious and allowed his dynamic version of abstraction to evolve as he tried new techniques and varied his aesthetic.
During the 1980's in particular, Christensen focused on experimenting with different forms of washing, spraying, and layering colours over top of each other. The works from Christensen's late period combine the gestural drama of Abstract Expressionism with the stained surface look popularized by the color field artists.
The aesthetic complexity he achieved with these combined techniques are perfectly demonstrated in this later untitled work (aka "Indian Summer...
Category
1980s Abstract Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Dan Christensen "Blush", 1981
By Dan Christensen
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Dan Christensen (1942-2007) is widely recognized as one of America’s foremost color abstractionists. Over the course his lengthy career, Christensen was devoted to exploring and expa...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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20th Century Post-War Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ice Rider
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Kula Sunrise
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
April Blue
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
New Orleans
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Dan Christensen once explained the meaning of his paintings created in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as “the harmonious turbulence of the universe.”
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1990s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled 296L7
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Following the dominant Abstract Expressionist wave of post-WWII, which decried realism in favor of non-representational forms, the second-generation Abstract Expressionists pointed t...
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20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Armistice
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Toro
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Cry Red
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
From the Target Series
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sola
By Dan Christensen
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Dan Christensen Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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Artist: Dan Christensen, American (1942 - 2007)
Title: Untitled III
Year: 1979
Medium: Silkscreen with Acrylic Painting, Signed in Pencil l.r.
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