Description
Pastel and pencil on paper mounted of paper board. Dan Basen was born in 1939 in Poughkeepsie, New York. The artist received his BS in Art Education from State University of New York at New Paltz in 1961, and an MFA from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art in 1963. He briefly continued his studies at the Brooklyn Museum of Art School in 1963-64.
During his brief career, Basen received numerous accolades, including an annual fellowship at the Rinehart School of Sculpture (1961-63), a Hamburger Award for Sculpture from the Baltimore Museum of Art (1962), a Peabody Fellowship of the Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore (1962), and a Museum Purchase Prize from the Baltimore Museum of Art (1963).
Basen’s work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions, including shows at the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum Downtown, both of which own the artist’s work, as well as the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Basen had solo exhibitions at Allan Stone Gallery, and was featured in group exhibitions at Betty Parsons Gallery, Byron Gallery, and Matthew Marks Gallery.
- DIMENSIONS
- 10.5ʺW × 3ʺD × 13.75ʺH
- STYLES
- Contemporary, Modern
- FRAME TYPE
- Unframed
- ART SUBJECTS
- Figure
- PERIOD
- 1960s
- MATERIALS
- Paper
- CONDITION
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- CONDITION NOTES
- Some wear consistent with age. See images.
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