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Dan Rice :: The Johnson Collection, LLC

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Dan Rice was an influential abstract expressionist artist at Black Mountain College in Western North Carolina and New York City.

Music, poetry, and painting were the passions that captivated Daniel Stacey Rice. A native of Long Beach, California, young Dan loved baseball and the trumpet, which he practiced four hours a day. He became sufficiently proficient that when the big bands (Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, and Artie Shaw) needed additional musicians for appearances in Los Angeles, Rice filled in. He took classes at the University of California, Los Angeles, before joining the United States Navy at age nineteen, serving on experimental battleships, and served two years in the Pacific, from 1944 to 1946. Once…

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