[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]

REMENICK, Seymour [1923–1999]

Portrait of a Man

undated (but probably circa 1950s)

oil on wood panel / 8 inches by 6 inches

Agincourt’s longstanding association with Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley dates from its founding in 1853. The story of those origins is celebrated on “Founders’ Day” but it is also reflected less obviously in the Community Collection. Seymour Remenick‘s portrait of an unidentified subject is one instance.

Remenick studied art successively at three schools, finally at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (PAFA) where he taught in the 1970s. Diane Huygens (born 1928), daughter of Gerrit and Truus Huygens of rural Grou, studied art in Philadelphia during the 1950s and may have known Remenick as faculty or a fellow student. This portrait comes to us from the Huygens family in memory of their aunt Diane.