{{Short description|American painter (1905–1971)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} '''Misha Reznikoff''' (1905–1971) 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).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Misha Reznikoff |url=http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=4019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607052626/http://americanart.si.edu/search/artist_bio.cfm?StartRow=1&ID=4019 |archive-date=2011-06-07 |access-date=2023-11-17 |website=Smithsonian American Art Museum}}</ref> He was born in Kyiv, Russian Empire, in 1905 and died in New York in 1971.<ref name=":0" /> 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,<ref>Portrait of Nation Revealed in Photos of Bygone Brazil http://www.columbia.edu/cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss18/record2118.14.html</ref> a program set by the Roosevelt Administration to promote American goodwill throughout Latin America. Reznikoff used techniques such as décollage and was described by Clement Greenberg as a "frail talent".<ref name=Greenberg>Greenberg, O'Brien (1993) ''The Collected Essays and Criticisms'' University of Chicago Press</ref>

He was exhibited in galleries such as the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York City.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/misha-reznikoff-302826/profile.html|title=Misha Reznikoff 1905–1971, US, UA|work=ArtFacts.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://anitashapolskygallery.com/artists/misha-reznikoff/|title=Reznikoff, Misha|work=anitashapolskygallery.com}}</ref>

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