#4

Eugene F. Dana

This 1951 cubist influenced oil is painted on a stretched canvas. Eugene Dana's works are rarely found on the secondary market.

Dana studied and worked with Josef Albers and taught in Chicago at "The Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology" which had been founded by Maholy-Nagy. He invloved himself in the modernist movements of his generation, including Cubism.

This oil, titled simply "#4" is a flattened arrangement of colorful shapes. There is a touch of the representational that Cubism often had, in this case two figures, perhaps a Don Quixote - Pancho Sanza reference, apparently dressed in armor with shields, riding an object that can go nowhere.