American surrealist artist and poet (1898-1963).
Born June 25th, 1898 in Watervliet. [ref]
Died January 8th, 1963 at 64 years old in Woodbury (ballistic trauma). [ref]
It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but retire a little from sight and afterwards return again. Ralph Waldo Emerson