Dan Yellow Kuhne (b. 1942, Oneida, NY) is an American abstract painter from a cadre of artists who took up the legacy of the Washington Color School a decade after the original artists. Coming out of the University of Maryland, Kuhne was inspired by his predecessors and their exploration of color as form. Fittingly, it was around this time that Kuhne adopted the nickname “Dan Yellow,” after a friend referred to him as “Daniello,” and he liked how the moniker sounded like his favorite color. Kuhne took classes from Gene Davis and exhibited around the DC area in the 1970s at venues like the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the University of Maryland. After a successful show at Jacob’s Ladder Gallery in 1972, the Phillips Collection hosted a solo show of his watercolors the following year.