Description
Untitled (Fishing Lake Michigan), 1929
Artist: Herman Menzel
Oil on canvas, 19 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches
Signed and dated lower right
A Chicago Modernist, who exhibited at Century Progress in 1933, New York World’s Fair in 1939, Pennsylvania Academy, Carnegie Institute and Brooklyn Museum. Menzel and Archibald Motley were the only one-man shows given by the Chicago Historical Society in 1990s. He lived with his family in Winnetka, Illinois for many years.
