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Medium/Discipline: Painting
Maryland Affiliation: Active while in residence
Prominent Theme: Landscape
Gender: Male
Race/Ethnicity: White
Biography: Leon Kroll taught at the Maryland Institute College of Art. He was a visiting critic at MICA from 1919-1923, and again for a period in the 1930s. Kroll traveled to Europe for the third time in 1923. At thirty-nine, he was a fairly successful painter and spent much of this journey in the company of the French artists Robert and Sonia Delaunay.
In the late 1930s after he returned to Baltimore, he gave "how to paint" lectures at The Baltimore Museum of Art in the adult education program. Etta Cone purchased a work from the artist in May 1934 of a small, bucolic village which is a charming depiction of Eddyville, New York, near Woodstock. Kroll painted there during the summers of 1916 and 1917 and later recalled in his memoir, "(Eddyville) was between the creek and a canal and looked like a little Spanish village." With its lush blue and green palette, brushwork, and subject matter, the landscape now held by The Baltimore Museum of Art shows the influence of Cézanne on his style.
Selected References: Exhibition label, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Cone Sisters as Patrons: Collectors of American Art, June 18 - August 31, 2003.
Maryland Institutions Holding Artworks: The Baltimore Museum of Art
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