The visual center

Paintings

For forty years the paintings have come out of the same ground as the songs and the gardens — flowers and animals, lovers and legends, the barefoot mind at work. Browse them as you would walk a bed of flowers, not a catalog.

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The Garden
Flower paintings, botanical details, animals, and the natural cycles of the year. The largest and most-loved body of work.
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02
Ballads of the Barefoot Mind
Twelve monumental ballad paintings, each bound to a song — carved and painted frames included, as Dan intends them.
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03
Early Work
Drawings, studies, and early paintings — the hand learning itself, bound up with family, labor, and place.
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04
Figures, Lovers, and Legends
Narrative and figurative paintings in which inherited stories, desire, myth, and contemporary bodies overlap.
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05
Recent Work
A living room for current paintings and works still wet on the easel.
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06
The Painted Frame
On Dan's carved, constructed, and painted frames — where image, craft, architecture, and decoration meet.
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Dandyland

gathering the garden…

The Garden

Ballads of the Barefoot Mind

Early Work

Figures, Lovers, and Legends