As a young veteran of WWII, Dan Teis moved to Mexico to study art at the Escuela de Pintura y Escultura under the Mexican muralist, José Clemente Orosco.

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. Over the years, artistic influences included: Mexican muralist painters José Clemente Orosco and Diego Rivera; American abstract collage artists  Lee Krasner and William Dole; Abstract Expressionists Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock and others; and later in his career, Japanese kimono design.

Dan Teis' paintings can be seen in many galleries, homes, and corporate and public spaces in the US and abroad. If you would like more information about Dan Teis, please contact his daughter, Kyra Teis.

Of special note: If you own a Teis painting that dates between 1995 and 2002, we would like to hear from you. We are very lucky to have excellent an record of his work. After his death, we compiled slides of over 900 of his paintings from 1945 - 1995. Unfortunately, slides from the last five years are lost. We would like to recreate those years from digital photos if possible.

Dan Teis

1924 - 2002

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