Southgate features the Ridgefield Landscape, one of Man Ray's early paintings, completed in 1913 in New Jersey when he was working at the artists' colony in the Palisades, across the Hudson River from Manhattan. The influence of the Armory Show, and especially of Cezanne, is evident. The three-dimensional vista of the rolling countryside is flattened to conform to the slightly vertical format of a two-dimensional piece of canvas. Emmanuel Radnitzky also known as Man Ray (1890-1976) was raised in Brooklyn and New Jersey, and by age 21 was working in Manhattan as a commercial artist. Evenings he took classes that were under the direction of George Bellows and Robert Henri. Increasingly drawn to modern art, he began frequenting 291, the Fifth Avenue gallery of photographer Alfred Stieglitz. There he made the acquaintance of works by such European avant-garde artists as Rodin, Picasso, and Braque. The watershed Armory Show held in New York in 1913 sealed his destiny.