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,

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, 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

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, 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

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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

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and the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City.

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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 {{Ukraine-painter-stub