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Henry Ernest Schnakenberg’sThe Avenue (Fifth Avenue, New York) sold for $5,398 at Freeman’s | Hindman A Lasting Legacy: The Estate of Michael Mennello auction on Feb. 21, 2024 in Palm Beach, Fla. Schnakenberg was born and raised in New York City and was very much inspired by his surroundings. A realist painter, he prominently featured Central Park along with other New York City landmarks in his works. Later in his career, the subject of his landscapes was often the New England rustic countryside.

Initially an insurance salesman at his father’s firm, Schnakenberg was inspired to become an artist after viewing the 1913 Armory Show in New York; his exposure to European Modernism at that show served as a life changing experience for him. He w...