| Leon Kroll | ||
| Birth Date: December 6, 1884 |
||
| Death Date: October 25, 1974 Artist Gallery |
||
| Born in New York City in 1884, Leon Kroll studied at the Art Students League with John H. Twachtman and in 1903, while attending the National Academy of Design, Kroll was awarded a scholarship to study painting in Europe. When his painting of a female nude won a Grand Prix prize in Paris in 1908, Leon Kroll began a career of winning major prizes in America and portraying sensuous nude women in naturalistic settings.
Leon Kroll was a colleague of “Ash Can” artists George Bellows, William Glackens and Robert Henri, but his contribution to modern American art veered away from their dark, gritty city views to a brighter, more colorful pastoral view, people with handsome men and women whose poses relate to the classicism of the past.
He discovered Gloucester in 1912 and was always delighted to return to Cape Ann during the summer months, where he and his Parisian wife - Genevieve Marie - lived in Folly Cove.
|
||