Irises and Spring Blossoms
Type:Painting
Year:1918
Size:20.25" x 24.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Signed and Dated
Leon Kroll ART FOR SALE
1884 New York City - 1974 New York City. Known for: Landscape, cityscape, figure, still life and genre painting, teaching.
Leon Kroll remained a painter of realism at a time when the American art world was moving rapidly into abstraction and other styles that fell under the general term of modernism. Nevertheless,... Read full biography
Leon Kroll remained a painter of realism at a time when the American art world was moving rapidly into abstraction and other styles that fell under the general term of modernism. Nevertheless, asserting that he liked easy-to-recognize subjects that created a sense of that which was warm,... Read full biography
Leon Kroll remained a painter of realism at a time when the American art world was moving rapidly into abstraction and other styles that fell under the general term of modernism. Nevertheless, asserting that he liked easy-to-recognize subjects that created a sense of that which was warm, sympathetic, and romantic, he was a leading artist of his time painting lush landscapes, figures, and still life. Other subjects such as his industrial scenes and cityscapes had elements of social realism and... Read full biography
Leon Kroll remained a painter of realism at a time when the American art world was moving rapidly into abstraction and other styles that fell under the general term of modernism. Nevertheless, asserting that he liked easy-to-recognize subjects that created a sense of that which was warm, sympathetic, and romantic, he was a leading artist of his time painting lush landscapes, figures, and still life. Other subjects such as his industrial scenes and cityscapes had elements of social realism and were painted with a heavier brush than his other works. He was especially focused on the human figure, and many of them seemed dreamlike in filmy dresses reclining in landscapes. Kroll was born in New York City in 1884. He first studied at the Art... Read full biography
Leon Kroll remained a painter of realism at a time when the American art world was moving rapidly into abstraction and other styles that fell under the general term of modernism. Nevertheless, asserting that he liked easy-to-recognize subjects that created a sense of that which was warm, sympathetic, and romantic, he was a leading artist of his time painting lush landscapes, figures, and still life. Other subjects such as his industrial scenes and cityscapes had elements of social realism and were painted with a heavier brush than his other works. He was especially focused on the human figure, and many of them seemed dreamlike in filmy dresses reclining in landscapes. Kroll was born in New York City in 1884. He first studied at the Art Students League under John H. Twachtman, and in 1904 entered the National Academy School, winning the Academy's premier award in 1908. To ear... Read full biography
Leon Kroll - Art for Sale (5 available)
Granite Quarries, Rockport, Massachusetts
Type:Painting
Year:1913
Size:25.00" x 30.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
signed Kroll, lower right
May on the Cape
Type:Painting
Year:circa 1940
Size:27.00" x 36.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Signed Leon Kroll, lower right
A Summer Day
Type:Painting
Year:c. 1930s
Size:21.00" x 24.00"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Right
Notes:
Leon Kroll (1884-1974) "A Summer Day" 14in. x 17in.(image) Oil on canvas board, c. 1930s Signed lower right Provenance: Estate of artist Harriet Tannin. A member of the Woodstock Art Colony. She represented the Estate of Rolph Scarlett, among other artists.
untitled, possibly Cape Ann
Type:Painting
Year:unknown
Size:20.00" x 24.00" x 1.25"
Medium:Oil
Signed:Lower Left
Notes:
22 x 26 framed, a few minor abrasions, no labels or markings verso, no provenance. Cape Ann as a possible location was suggested by Brunk Auctions.