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 himself in philosophy and psychology. This early exploration of the human condition, of thought and perception, would subtly inform his later artistic endeavors, eve…