Oil on canvas, signed at lower right, inscribed to verso "To my friend Tony and Franz Bader" to the stretcher, framed.

Stretcher size 16 1/8 x 20 in.; Frame dimensions 23 3/8 x 27 1/4 in.

Herman Maril was a Baltimore-born artist who received early training at the Maryland Institute of Fine Arts. He worked during the Depression years on federal projects and during his military service. After the war, he began his career as a teacher and painter at the University of Maryland. His paintings emphasize simplicity and are created with broad, flat, color masses in a style related to Cubism. He exhibited widely in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New York, receiving numerous prizes and awards.

During his career in Washington, D. C., Maril was particularly loyal to one of his dealers, Franz Bader of Franz Bader Gallery, where he exhibited frequently for over 40 years. Bader would visit the Marils in Provincetown each summer to see the artist's latest work, maintaining a close relationship with the artist and his family.

Today, Maril's works are in the collections of the Baltimore Museum, Bronk Collection at Adirondack College, Butler Institute of American Art, Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Cleveland Museum, and Corcoran Gallery. Maril pieces can also be found at the Hyde Collection, the Phillips Collection, the National Academy of Design, the Provincetown Art Association, Smithsonian's National Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum, the Whitney Museum, the Walters Art Museum, Wichita Art Museum, Worcester Art Museum, and numerous others.

Good estate condition, light grime, minor abrasion at upper right corner.