First attending Northwestern University, Daniel Lang (1931-2013) earned his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Tulsa. Underscoring his postgraduate studies were a master of fine arts degree from University of Iowa, four Yaddo Fellowships, and two MacDowell Fellowships.
A cosmopolitan painter, Lang based his invented landscapes on sketches and snapshots from his global travels. Rolando Bellini called his paintings "intellectual autobiographies." International public collections include The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Glasgow, Scotland. Lang soloed in art galleries in Belgium, England, Italy, Scotland, and West Germany, and in New York, Houston, and Chicago. Public collections coast to coast exhibited his work — from The Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Smithsonian Institute Museum of American Art, Washington, D. C., to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Collectors, colleges, and corporations, including American Telephone and Telegraph, Chase Manhattan Bank, Pennzoil, and Prudential Life Insurance, also collected his work.
In 1986, Galleria BelloSguardo, Cagli, Italy and Sherry French Gallery, New York co-published the book entitled Daniel Lang: Trees/Water/Silence, A Selection of Paintings from 1975 through 1986.
Beginning in 1978, Lang spent six months in New York City and the other half of the year in the small medieval village of Montone in Umbria, Italy.
He first established his reputation as an etcher and draughtsman. In 1995, he collaborated with Stewart & Stewart to do his first work in screenprint at the Wing Lake Studio, Bloomfield Hills, MI. At the time of his death in 2013, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Utah.
