On View
Not on viewObject number2009.11
Halifax II
Artist
Dan Christensen
(American, 1942-2007)
Date1969
Mediumlithograph
Dimensionssheet: 30 × 22 1/4 in. (76.2 × 56.5 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Charlotte Collins from the Charles and Charlotte Collins Collection
Exhibition History"A Passion for Collecting: Prints of the 1960s and '70s from the Collins Collection," KIA Galleries 2&5 (Nov. 13, 2010 - Jan. 2, 2011).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Charles H. MacNider Museum of Art, Mason City, IA (June 24 - August 20, 2016).
"Drawn to Abstraction," Sardoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA (August 25 - November 1, 2020).Label TextEmerging on the art scene in 1966 with vibrant, gestural canvases, Dan Christensen displayed the kind of burgeoning talent that attracted many collectors and museums. This lithograph exhibits the improvisational quality of his sprayed, acrylic “loop” paintings which were garnering acclaim in New York at the time. Like Anuszkiewicz, Christensen achieves a sense of movement through color interactions, though his expressive, speckled lines were a departure from his contemporary’s hard-edged geometric forms.
