GRAHAM, John
(1881–1961)
GRAHAM, John (9 January 1881–1961; b. Ivan Dombrowsky). Active among New York artists from the time of his arrival in the United States in 1920, Graham became influential not just because he was older but because of his direct experience of avant-garde developments in both his native Russia and elsewhere in Europe. According to the anonymous author of the Oxford Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art, “He discussed the automatism of the Surrealists before this was generally understood in America…