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) . He was born in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1905 and died in New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 in 1971. He was married to photographer Genevieve Naylor. From 1940 to 1943, he and Genevieve were sent to Brazil as part of the cultural wing of the Office of Inter-American Affairs

Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs

The Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs was a United States agency promoting inter-American cooperation during the 1940s, especially in commercial and economic areas...

 , a program set by the Roosevelt Administration to promote American goodwill throughout Latin America.
Reznikoff used techniques such as décollage

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. Examples include inimage or etrécissements and excavations...

 and was described by Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg

Clement Greenberg was an American essayist known mainly as an influential visual art critic closely associated with American Modern art of the mid-20th century...

as a "frail talent".