40 x 40 Blue
Date1985
Artist
Dan Teis
(American painter, 1925–2002)
MediumMixed media on canvas
Dimensions40 × 40 in. (101.6 × 101.6 cm)
frame: 42 × 42 in. (106.7 × 106.7 cm)
frame: 42 × 42 in. (106.7 × 106.7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Wesley and Harriet Memeger, 2018
Object number2018-87
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextDan Teis joined the University of Delaware art department in 1974 and served as professor and chairman before his retirement in 1991. The artist began making collages in the 1950s and commented on the spontaneity of the method as integral to his creative process. Thoroughly committed to abstraction, Teis’ paintings incorporate both geometric and organic forms, and often include brightly-colored, floating dots or diamonds as focal points within the fields of mottled color.
