At a Four Walls event in Brooklyn in the early 1990s, Erik Oppenheim, at that time a young artist, stood up and said, “I’m starting an art movement. “THE REIGN OF ORPHEUS IS BEGINNING,” declared the ...

In 1946, he received a prestigious traveling fellowship to study abroad, which led him to the studio of Fernand Léger in Paris. He was professor of fine art at Boston University from 1964 to 1986.