About Dan Christensen

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Daniel James Christensen
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    DAN CHRISTENSEN CAPTURED THE HARMONIOUS TURBULENCE OF THE 'UNIVERSE' IN HIS PAINTINGS

    By L. Kent Wolgamott, Lincoln Journal Star, October 31, 2009

    When Dan Christensen was attending Chadron State College in the late 1950s, art instructors there recognized the young painter's talent and encouraged him to attend the Kansas City Art Institute.

    Fifty years later, Christensen, who died in 2007 at age 64, is a highly regarded painter, likely the most noted, important Nebraska native artist of his era.

    "That's the way I'd see it," said Lincoln painter Keith Jacobshagen, who was at the Kansas City Art Institute with Christensen in the early 1960s. "Of that era, he was the only one to come out...

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