Press Release: (CMC) CMC donates painting to MSOE

Milwaukee, WI…March 30, 2005…CMC Heartland Partners announces the donation of “Piggybacker,” a painting of its Bensenville yards to the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection.

CMC Chief Executive Officer Lawrence S. Adelson said “We are happy that this painting of our Bensenville, Illinois facility has been accepted by the Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection. It is an honor that this donation can join the other depictions of work at this fine institution.”

The painting is some four feet square and is painted in a corporate expressionist style. It shows heavy rail operations at the Milwaukee Road’s Bensenville, Illinois facility. The scene includes workers and enormous rail handling machinery, the “Piggybacker” of its title. The painting is signed “Miller `68”. It was commissioned for the Milwaukee Road’s headquarters in Milwaukee and hung for many years in the President’s office.

MSOE President Dr. Hermann Viets said, “We appreciate that CMC has shown the public spiritedness to bring this fine painting to our collection for our community to enjoy for years to come.”

Man at Work: The Eckhart G. Grohmann Collection was established by Dr. Eckhart G. Grohmann, Chairman and President of Aluminum Casting and Engineering Co. and an MSOE Board of Regents member. The collection has its origin in Grohmann’s childhood fascination with work. Anonymous German and Austrian artists produced many of the paintings in this collection, along with works by Lorenz, Mercker and Vangoyen. Piggybacker is one of the newer items in the collection, which has holdings dating to the 17th century.

CMC Heartland Partners is a Chicago-based real estate partnership with properties primarily in the Upper Midwest. CMC Heartland is a subsidiary of Heartland Partners; L.P. CMC is the successor to the Milwaukee Road Railroad, founded in 1847.