Eugene Dana
American, 1912 - 1996
Born in Marengo, IL in 1912, Eugene Dana spent his early childhood living in Clinton, Iowa. In 1936, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and received a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1937, he studied Modern painting at the St. Paul School of Art with artists LeRoy Turner and Cameron Booth. In 1941, he studied at Harvard University with with the noted Bauhaus instructor, Josef Albers.
Dana’s first teaching assignment was at the South High School in Minneapolis, MN. Moving to Chicago, Dana became a longtime Professor of Art at the Institute of Design (ID) from 1947-1963. From 1966-1985, he became an instructor at the University of Illinois, Chicago (Circle campus). During his years at the ID and University of Illinois, Dana worked closely with fellow artist and instructor, Richard Koppe. Dana organized the Richard Koppe retrospective at the University of Illinois in 1977 after the artist’s untimely death.
During his lifetime, Eugene Dana accepted numerous visiting teaching positions throughout the country, including those at Drake University, Des Moines, IA; Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Dana exhibited at such national venues as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (Guggenheim Foundation), New York, NY; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL and the St. Paul School of Art, St. Paul, MN, among others.
Together with his friend and colleague, Glenn Allen, the two artists established the Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, of which his estate collection benefits.
Eugene Dana died in Harvard, IL in 1996.
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Vis-a-Vis, 1986Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame41 3/4 x 48 inches
Signed Eugene Dana and dated, lower right; Titled on label on reverse.
#8553 -
Totem, 1986Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame57 1/2 x 20 1/2 inches
Signed Eugene Dana and dated, lower center.
#17489 -
Untitled (Abstraction), 1982Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame21 3/4 x 45 3/4 inches
Signed Eugene Dana and dated, lower right.
#17402 -
The Tempest, Scenes from the Mask: The Naiads, 1994Acrylic on Masonite, in artist’s painted frame37 3/4 x 25 inches
Signed Eugene Dana and dated, upper left.
#17406 -
Diptych: Visitation: Morning, Visitation: Evening, 1983Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's original painted frame50 x 25 inches
Each signed and dated Eugene Dana, 2-13-83 lower left; titled and dated on reverse.
#8521 -
Blue Kilter, 1980Acrylic on canvas, in artist's original painted frame34 x 48 inches
Signed Eugene Dana and dated upper right; titled on label on reverse.
#8556 -
Untitled (Abstraction), 1980Acrylic on canvas, in artist's original painted frame37 x 30 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana, 1980 lower left.
#8558 -
Untitled (Abstraction), 1983Acrylic on Masonite, in artist's original painted frame45 x 31 inches
Signed Eugene Dana and dated lower right.
#9490 -
Quattrocento, 1980Acrylic on board27 x 41 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana, 1980 lower left; signed and titled on label on reverse.
#9488 -
Red and Gray (Octagon Three), 1943Oil on board31 1/2 x 24 inches
Signed with initials and dated ED 4-43 lower right; signed, titled and dated on reverse.
#8517 -
Princeton Totem, 1985Watercolor on paper25 1/2 x 12 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana 9/85, lower right; Inscribed lower left and titled lower center
#19256 -
Ariel (From Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”), 1992Watercolor on paper20 x 15 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana 6.22.92, lower left, titled lower right; titled, dated and numbered reverse.
#17499 -
Night Wings, 1979Watercolor and collage on paper14 3/4 x 28 1/4 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana 1979, lower right; titled, dated and numbered on label on reverse.
#17504 -
Ovals, 1941Gouache and collage construction on artist board24 x 17 inches
Signed with initials and dated E.D. 8-41, lower right; signed, titled and inscribed on reverse: Eugene Dana, August 1941, Cambridge, Mass.
#8529 -
Bent Planes, 1939Gouache and colored pencil on paper15 x 25 1/4 inches
Signed with initials and dated ED 8-1939, lower right; titled on label on reverse.
#9479 -
Night, 1979Watercolor on paper24 x 29 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana 1979, lower right.
#8542 -
Untitled, ca. 1960sWatercolor on paper11 x 16 1/2 inches
Provenance: The Estate of the Artist
#17506 -
The Greens and Violets, 1955Gouache on paper22 x 12 inches
Signed with initials and dated E.D. 1955, lower right; titled on label on reverse.
#17498 -
Ibis, 1983Graphite and colored pencil on paper14 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Signed Eugene Dana, lower right; dated lower right on sheet margin; titled and dated on label on reverse.
#17503 -
Head #3, 1937Watercolor on paper12 x 9 1/4 inches
Signed with initials and dated ED 37, lower right; Titled and numbered on reverse
#17513 -
Blue Eyes, 1939Watercolor on paper22 x 15 inches
Signed and dated Eugene Dana 39, lower left; Titled and numbered on reverse
#17514 -
Standing Male Model, 1937Watercolor on paper20 x 13 inches
Signed with initials and dated E.D. 37, lower right; Titled and numbered on reverse
#17515 -
Landscape in Pink, Blue and Green, ca. 1937Watercolor on paper11 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches
Titled on reverse
#17519
Born in Marengo, IL in 1912, Eugene Dana spent his early childhood living in Clinton, Iowa. In 1936, he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and received a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In 1937, he studied Modern painting at the St. Paul School of Art with artists LeRoy Turner and Cameron Booth. In 1941, he studied at Harvard University with with the noted Bauhaus instructor, Josef Albers.
Dana’s first teaching assignment was at the South High School in Minneapolis, MN. Moving to Chicago, Dana became a longtime Professor of Art at the Institute of Design (ID) from 1947-1963. From 1966-1985, he became an instructor at the University of Illinois, Chicago (Circle campus). During his years at the ID and University of Illinois, Dana worked closely with fellow artist and instructor, Richard Koppe. Dana organized the Richard Koppe retrospective at the University of Illinois in 1977 after the artist’s untimely death.
During his lifetime, Eugene Dana accepted numerous visiting teaching positions throughout the country, including those at Drake University, Des Moines, IA; Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY; Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA and Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Dana exhibited at such national venues as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Museum of Non-Objective Painting (Guggenheim Foundation), New York, NY; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI; the University of Illinois, Chicago, IL and the St. Paul School of Art, St. Paul, MN, among others.
Together with his friend and colleague, Glenn Allen, the two artists established the Dana-Allen Dissertation Fellowship in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, of which his estate collection benefits.
Eugene Dana died in Harvard, IL in 1996.
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