A Life Dedicated to the Evolving Language of Abstraction Balcomb Greene, born John Wesley Greene in 1904 in Millville, New York, embarked on a remarkable artistic journey that mirrored the seismic shifts occurring within the American art world throughout the 20th century. Initially steered toward a religious path by his father, a Methodist minister, Greene’s intellectual curiosity led him to Syracuse University where he immersed himse…