For more than 90 years, two Carl Hoerman masterpieces – “October Day on Lake Kalamazoo” (1929) and “Autumn Symphony” (1929) – have delighted lovers of art visiting the bank on Mason Street in Saugatuck. With the closure of the bank once known as Fruit Growers State Bank in 2023, a question loomed large: what would happen to the beloved art in the lobby?
After a multiyear effort working with Huntington Bank to guarantee the Carl Hoerman paintings at their Saugatuck branch remain on public view in our community, the paintings have found new homes! As of this January, the two 1929 paintings are now at the History Center in Douglas.
Huntington Bank donated two additional Carl Hoerman paintings dated 1930 to the Saugatuck Center for the Arts.