Born in Brooklyn to German émigré parents, Katherine Dreier followed her conventional art training with more progressive approaches in Europe during the early 1900s. There she acquainted herself with radical artists including Marcel DuChamp and Man Ray, and subsequently played a key role in the promotion of modernism in America. Dreier’s nonobjective paintings reveal her deeply held belief in art’s potential to shape and change lives. Echoes of Bach marks a renewed commitment to her view of abstract art as a cosmic, spiritual means of communication.