Robert Ryman (b.1930) an American painter, a conceptual artist, and an explorer of a minimalistic palette. Born in Nashville, Tennessee, studied saxophone at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute in Cookeville and at the George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville, part of Vanderbilt University. After his service in the reserve corps during the Korean War, stationing in Alabama, Ryman moved to New York where he decided to fully immerse in the profession of a jazz saxophonist. During his searches for a flexible work arrangement that would allow him practise music and pay rent, Ryman started working at the Museum of Modern Art… and the journey with art started right there…