Alexander Archipenko grew up in Kiev, Russia, where he studied painting and sculpture at the Kiev Art School. In 1908 he moved to Paris and exhibited with a group of avant-garde artists that included Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Léger. Archipenko created some of the earliest multimedia sculptures, working with glass, wire, and wood, and was one of the first modern artists to add color to sculpted form. In 1923, Archipenko moved to the United States, where he opened art schools in New York City and Woodstock and taught in universities across the country
