Henry Lyman Saÿen

Henry Lyman Saÿen (1875-1918) was an American artist and scientist. He was a specialist in medical radiography and patented a self-regulating x-ray tube. Saÿen studied with Henri Matisse in Paris, and was one of the first American artists to join the Fauvism movement.

His paintings incorporated “cubist compositions" and those from other modernist art movements. He believed that modernist art was “the making of reality, not the representation of it".