| Daniel
K. Teis (1925 - 2002)
As a young veteran of WWII, Dan Teis moved to Mexico to study
art at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura. He would go on to earn
a doctorate in Arts Administration from NYU. He served as Dean
of the Arkansas Art Center, and later as Chair of the Fine Arts
Department at the University of Delaware.
His technique, acrylic and paper collage on canvas, achieves
complex textures and subtle color variation. He moves from bold
colors
and geometric shapes, to softly muted abstractions.
Dan Teis' paintings can be seen in many galleries, homes, and
corporate spaces in the US and abroad.
Dr. Teis had a distinguished career as an administrator
and professor of art at the University of Delaware, East
Tennessee State University, East Carolina University, the
Arkansas Arts Center and the University of Southwestern
Louisiana. At each institution, he was credited with raising
the level of professionalism in the art department.
A graduate of the University of Missouri, he earned his
master’s degree from Tulsa University and his doctorate
in arts education administration from New York University.
He also attended the Taos Valley School of Art in New Mexico,
La Escuela de Pintura y Escultura in Mexico City and the
Universidad de Michoacan in Morelia, Mexico, where he studied
fresco mural painting.
During World War II, he served on the USS Lansdowne, where
he saw combat duty in the Pacific from 1944-1946. He also
participated in the Lansdowne reunion activities for the
past 15 years.
After a one-person show of his large, abstract paintings
at the Delaware Art Museum in 1974, his work was the first
contemporary art to be accepted and critically acclaimed
in the state, paving the way for other modern artists to
follow. He had exhibited widely in the U.S., where his
work is represented in numerous public and private collections.
Public collections include the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington,
the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, the Nelson Gallery-Atkins
Museum in Kansas City, the New Jersey Art Museum in Trenton,
N.J., the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, and the Columbia
Museum in South Carolina, among others.
His canvases are found in many corporate collections,
including the News Journal, DuPont, Daniels & Tansey,
Beneficial Corp., First USA Bank and CoreStates Bank in
Delaware. In addition, his works are included in more than
100 private collections.
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