Education
1974 MFA Yale University, New Haven, CT
1972 BFA San Diego University, San Diego, CA
1971 Whitney Museum Education Program, New York, NY
 
Experience

 Website: 
   www.danavanhorn.com


Solo Exhibitions:  
1999  "Watercolor Portraits", Baum School of Art, Allentown, PA
1988  "Local Heroes", Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
1992, 89, 87 Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY
     
Recent selected group exhibitions:  
1999  "Contemporary American Realist Drawings, The Jalane and Richard Davidson Collection", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

"Local Color", Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA

"Sea: Scene: See: Seen", Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA

1995  Group Show, Rosenfeld Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
    
Recent selected commissions: 
1999  Portrait of Alfred Krug, President, Mannesmann Rexroth Corporation,
Allentown, PA

Portrait of Joseph Scheller, Allentown, PA

1998  Portrait of Robert I. Rotberg, former President, Lafayette College, Easton, PA

1997  Portrait of Charles Vest, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1995  Four portraits, Union College, Schenectady, NY

1990 - 91 Mural, "Enthroned Christ with German Saints," (14' x 40"), Holy Ghost
Church, Bethlehem, PA

Teaching Philosophy
My students range from inexperienced beginners to more advanced experienced painters. This being the case I try to work with each student individually according to his or her abilities. Each student is encouraged to pursue subject matter and style they feel most comfortable with from portraiture to still life and landscape, in a realistic style or more abstractly. I stress basic principles of color, composition and value, which are applicable to a wide range of approaches. I try to help you find your painting 'voice' and to develop it into a fluent painting language. Demonstration of various principles and techniques will also be part of the class. My classes are designed so that new skill can be learned and already acquired ones can be developed in a relaxed, not-threatening atmosphere.
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