Misha Reznikoff was an American-Ukrainian artist noted for such pictures as ''The End of the Horse – Or New Deal'' (1934) and ''The Solidity of the Road to Metaphor and Memory'' (1935).
[Smithsonian American Art Museum http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=4019] He was born in
Kiev,
Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...
, in 1905 and died in New York in 1971.
He was married to photographer
Genevieve Naylor.
From 1940 to 1943 the couple was in Brazil as part of the cultural wing of the
Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs
The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs, later known as the Office for Inter-American Affairs, was a United States agency promoting inter-American cooperation (Pan-Americanism) during the 1940s, especially in commercial and econ ...
, a program set by the Roosevelt Administration to promote American goodwill throughout Latin America.
Reznikoff used techniques such as
décollage
''Décollage'', in art, is the opposite of collage; instead of an image being built up of all or parts of existing images, it is created by cutting, tearing away or otherwise removing, pieces of an original image. and was described by
Clement Greenberg
Clement Greenberg () (January 16, 1909 – May 7, 1994), occasionally writing under the pseudonym K. Hardesh, was an American essayist known mainly as an art critic closely associated with American modern art of the mid-20th century and a formali ...
as a "frail talent".
[Greenberg, O'Brien (1993) ''The Collected Essays and Criticisms'' University of Chicago Press]
He was exhibited in galleries such as the
Anita Shapolsky Gallery
The Anita Shapolsky Gallery is an art gallery that was founded in 1982 by Anita Shapolsky. It is currently located at 152 East 65th Street, on Manhattan's Upper East Side, in New York City.
The gallery specializes in 1950s and 1960s abstract e ...
and the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City.
References
1905 births
1971 deaths
20th-century American painters
American male painters
American expatriates in Brazil
20th-century Ukrainian painters
20th-century Ukrainian male artists
20th-century American male artists
Federal Art Project artists
Ukrainian male painters
Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States
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