Reared by his father for the rabbinate, Ben-Zion Weiman came from Poland to America in 1920.  After turning to art (and shortening his name), he became a founding member of The Ten, the 1930’s avant-garde group, with Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottleib, Mark Rothko, and others.  Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington.  The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.