Victor Kord (Romanian/American 1935) was born Victor George Katz in Satu Mare, Romania. The family immigrated to Canada to avoid the threat of war in 1938. They moved to Ukiah, California in 1943 and the family name changed to Kord. They subsequently moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1945. As a child and later studied at the Cleveland Institute of Art and Yale University under Josef Albers and James Brooks. Kord gained recognition in the 1960s for his color-driven abstract paintings and participated in major exhibitions including The Responsive Eye generation of abstract artists and the Whitney Museum’s Lyrical Abstraction exhibition. He also served as chair and professor at several universities, including Cornell University, where he became Professor Emeritus.