Early in the morning he killed himself. The barber, a friend of famed Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder, was employed by the Albert Hotel in Manhattan, owned by the brother of Painter Albert Pinkham Ryder.

Influenced by Eastern philosophy and the brooding paintings of Albert Pinkham Ryder, Jensen’s compositions are meditatively worked and reworked. “I seem to use the idea of seepage, where I will dredge ...