Max Weber, who was to become a pioneer of American modern art, came to the United States with his family ten years after his birth in Russia in 1881. At the age of 24, with many studies and some teaching experience, he left for Paris, at a time of the first high crest in the wave of modern art. Laurens was his first major teacher there, and later Matisse. By the time of his return to this country in 1909, there was no mistaking his deep involvemnent in the most advanced art forms of the time. From then on, through exhibitions and teaching, he exerted a continuing influence on the growth of art in America, even while his own style progressed from decade to decade.

The influence of Cezanne is aopparent during the mod-1920's, but later personal qualities of Weber's style are also appearing in such techniques as the clash if intense colors in the two apples.  Source: Bulletin, October 1962.