Rufus J. Dryer

His father, Rufus Keeler Dryer (1846-1937), was board chairman of the Monroe County Savings Bank.

When he turned twenty-one he moved to New York City, to study with Robert Henri.

By 1910, he had established a studio in Paris, near the Île de la Cité, where he stayed for over twenty years.

[3] In 1917, he served as a driver for the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, with the rank of Sergeant.

In 1934, not long after the Sixth of February Crisis, he left Paris and returned to his family's estate, High Acres, in Geneva, New York.