He was captured in 1937 during the [[Great Purges]] in the Soviet Union,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=umYjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Watching the red dawn: The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union]</ref> and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-o5jqehzvcC&pg=PA246 The Soviet World of American Communism]</ref> He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition. | He was captured in 1937 during the [[Great Purges]] in the Soviet Union,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=umYjDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA185 Watching the red dawn: The American avant-garde and the Soviet Union]</ref> and sentenced to hard labor in the gulag in the gold fields at Kolyma, Siberia.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=u-o5jqehzvcC&pg=PA246 The Soviet World of American Communism]</ref> He died there in 1939 of overwork and malnutrition. |