Frederick S. Mendel
Artist
Leo Mol
(Ukrainian, Canadian, 1915 - 2009)
Manufacturer
Guss Strehle Nevotting
Date1979
Mediumbronze
DimensionsOverall: 49.6 x 22.9 x 25 cm (19 1/2 x 9 x 9 13/16 in.)
Credit LineThe Mendel Art Gallery Collection at Remai Modern. Commissioned with funds donated by Eva Mendel Miller 1977.
Object number1979.20.1
Classificationssculpture
On View
Not on viewOriginally from Ukraine, Leo Mol immigrated in 1948 to Winnipeg, where the Leo Mol Sculpture Garden now houses more than 300 of his sculptures. Mol won numerous international and national commissions for memorial portraits, in addition to creating portrayals of animals and people in a simplified, monumental style.
In her speech at the unveiling of this bust in 1979, Eva Mendel Miller commented: “A valid and noble claim to immortality is the legacy of a spiritual endowment to one’s own community. Fred Mendel is renowned for many good works, but I am glad that locally he is most fondly remembered as the man who made Saskatoon care about art. I think that the eminent sculptor Leo Mol has captured in bronze this facet of his caring as expressively as he has the many other characteristics of this unique, complex man.”
Frederick Salomon Mendel was born December 18, 1888, in Recklinghausen, Germany. He was 87 when he died in Palm Springs, United States, on May 27, 1976.
In her speech at the unveiling of this bust in 1979, Eva Mendel Miller commented: “A valid and noble claim to immortality is the legacy of a spiritual endowment to one’s own community. Fred Mendel is renowned for many good works, but I am glad that locally he is most fondly remembered as the man who made Saskatoon care about art. I think that the eminent sculptor Leo Mol has captured in bronze this facet of his caring as expressively as he has the many other characteristics of this unique, complex man.”
Frederick Salomon Mendel was born December 18, 1888, in Recklinghausen, Germany. He was 87 when he died in Palm Springs, United States, on May 27, 1976.
