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