Artist

Leon Kroll

In the Country
Leo Ornstein at the Piano
The Park-Winter

American, 1884–1974

Leon Kroll was an American American Impressionism artist. 3 works are cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art. Leon Kroll was born in New York City.

Leon Kroll (December 6, 1884 – October 25, 1974) was an American painter and lithographer. A figurative artist described by Life magazine as "the dean of U.S. nude painters", he was also a landscape painter and also produced an exceptional body of still life compositions. His public art includes murals for the Department of Justice Building in Washington, D.C. He created his only mosaic for the chapel ceiling at Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial.

Works by Leon Kroll

Collections represented

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