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Dan (Daniel) Rice

Dan (Daniel) Rice (1926 - 2003) was active/lived in Connecticut, California.  Dan Rice is known for New York School of abstract painting, lyrical expressionist, teaching.

"Painting, or any other art form, is not about self-expression. This idea, which has spread somehow, is simply not true. And Abstract Expressionism itself is often thought of as some wild expression of the self, of emotion. This, again, is completely untrue. The last thing a painter thinks of is himself. Painting is truly a means of expressing the ineffable." -Dan Rice

Dan Rice, who died 2003, was a younger member of the New York School. He is considered a lyrical abstract expressionist and a key figure in the 1940s and 1950s at Black Mountain College. In 2014, Black Mountain College Museum hosted a retrospective of his work, placing Rice's works in the context of his friends and contemporaries including Willem deKooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg and many others. 

From 1943-1945, at just 17 years old, Rice served in the Navy on experimental battleships. After the war, he studied at University of California, Berkeley. He then wen   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 6734 characters.]  Artist bio

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