Dan Basen

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Dan Murry Basen was an American sculptor, painter, assemblage artist and performance artist. Basen is best known for his assemblages and box-based work. Dan Basen was educated at the State University of New York (BS) and the Maryland Institute of Art's Rinehart School of Sculpture (MFA). He took courses at the Brooklyn Museum School and received many awards for his work, including a Rinehart Fellowship, and the Max Beckman Scholarship of the Brooklyn Museum. Basen exhibited his work in a number of important New York City galleries during the 1960s, including Allan Stone Gallery, Betty Parsons Gallery, the Bridge Gallery, and the Chelsea Gallery. His work also showed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C. Basen's work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Rhode Island School of Design and Colgate University.

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