Born in Russia but immigrated to New York in 1912 due to chaos of Czarist Russia. Studied art at Cooper Union alongside Chaim Gross. Also studied under Guy Pène du Bois at the Art Students League of New York and connected with Reginald Marsh and Peggy Bacon there. Became well known during the 1920s and 1930s but became viewed old-fashioned as the Abstract Expressionism movement took the scene. Exhibited at many institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburg. Works reside in the permanent collections of numerous museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
