Raymond Breinin

Born November 30, 1909 in Vitebsk, Russia; died April 4, 2000 in the White Plains Hospital in Westchester, N.Y., after suffering an aortic aneurysm. As a young man, Breinin studied under the painter Uri Penn and later, at the Vitebsk Academy of Art. His family emigrated to Rochelle, IL where they lived for one year before moving to Chicago, IL. He attended public school ...