American, 1896 - 1986
Zygmunt Menkes studied at the Museum of Fine Arts, Krakow, Poland, and later in Berlin and Paris. Among his honors were the Clark Prize from the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C.; the Carol A. Beck Medal from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; and the Carnegie Award from the National Academy. His paintings are in public collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Newark Museum; the Tel Aviv Museum and the Betsalel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
