Art & Mood:Leon Kroll-Summer
Leon Kroll: Figuratively Speaking
Leon Kroll-Summer,1920-1931
Girl in a Hammock, 1922
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Summer, New York ,1931
Leon Kroll is quintessentially a 20th century American realist artist. His work is idealized, classical, contemplative. Born in New York City in 1884, Kroll attended the Art Students' League, where his first instructor was American Impressionist John H. Twatchman. While studying at the Acádemie Julien in Paris, he won the Grand Prix for painting the nude. By 1912 in America, Kroll was an award-winning artist, with colleagues Glackens, Henri, and Bellows, and the friendship of Winslow Homer. His painting was shaped early on by realism, softened by French Impressionism, and the Post-impressionism of Renoir and Cézanne. Though Kroll painted landscapes and still lifes, the single, constant theme of his work was the female form. He painted distinguished murals for the Justice Building in Washington, and at Johns Hopkins University, and his work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian. more...
Leon Kroll-Summer,1920-1931
Girl in a Hammock, 1922
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Summer, New York ,1931
Leon Kroll is quintessentially a 20th century American realist artist. His work is idealized, classical, contemplative. Born in New York City in 1884, Kroll attended the Art Students' League, where his first instructor was American Impressionist John H. Twatchman. While studying at the Acádemie Julien in Paris, he won the Grand Prix for painting the nude. By 1912 in America, Kroll was an award-winning artist, with colleagues Glackens, Henri, and Bellows, and the friendship of Winslow Homer. His painting was shaped early on by realism, softened by French Impressionism, and the Post-impressionism of Renoir and Cézanne. Though Kroll painted landscapes and still lifes, the single, constant theme of his work was the female form. He painted distinguished murals for the Justice Building in Washington, and at Johns Hopkins University, and his work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian. more...