Dan Christensen (1942 - 1997) was born in Cozad, Nebraska. He received his BFA in 1964 from the Kansas City Art Institute. In 1967 he began using spray guns to draw colorful stacks, loops and lines on his paintings, which were among the most original abstract paintings of the decade. Having a unique mastery of the language of abstract painting color, line and surface he used his ability to produce a varied and high quality body of work. His lucid and articulate ability to paint has led his fertile imagination into several radically different series. He has a willingness to change and grow and has often altered his painting methods and his style. He began exhibiting in New York City in 1966. Since then he has had more than 60 solo exhibitions and his work has appeared in important group shows all over the world. His paintings are represented in important museums and private collections in the United States and abroad including Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Boston Museum of Fine Arts, MA; Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL; Dayton Art Institute, OH; Denver Museum of Art, CO; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada; The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, CA; Guggenheim Museum, NY; High Museum, Atlanta, GA; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; Ludwig Collection in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany; Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Museum of Modern Art, NY; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; St. Louis Art Museum, MO; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE; Toledo Museum, Toledo, OH and Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, among others. He has won numerous awards including the National Endowment Grant (1968), the Guggenheim Fellowship Theodora Award (1969), Gottlieb Foundation Grant (1986) and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (1992).