Rutherford Boyd

His illustration work appeared on the covers of national magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post.

These intensely geometric works were the subject of a 1937 short film, Parabola, by Mary Ellen Bute and Ted Nemeth, with music by Darius Milhaud.

[4] At the invitation of abstract artist Josef Albers, Boyd was a guest lecturer at Black Mountain College in North Carolina.

[6] The couple bought the Cole-Allaire House at 112 Prospect Street in Leonia, New Jersey in 1916, and spent three years restoring it.

[8] His watercolor, Flower Garden, Irises and Poppies (1929), sold at Sotheby's New York, on September 24, 2008, for $43,750[9] – an auction record for the artist.