Framed Leon Kroll Lithograph of Mary Lewis Hall, 1933

Lot 125

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Lot Description

Leon Kroll (American, 1884-1974), portrait of a woman, possibly Mary Lewis Hall, lithograph on wove paper, ca. 1933. Signed on lower right in the plate. A portrait of a woman with an elegant visage and a centrally-parted upraised coiffure. Kroll dedicated another lithograph of this woman to his friend and artistic colleague Mary Lewis Hall (American, 1910-1986). Given this, the portrait may in fact be a rendering of Hall. Kroll and Hall collaborated on a mural in Shriver Hall on the Homewood Campus of the Johns Hopkins University In 1956. Size: 19.25" L x 14.375" W (48.9 cm x 36.5 cm) framed

Leon Kroll was born in New York City, studied at the Art Students League there as well as with John H. Twachtman in 1901, the National Academy of Design in 1903 and the Academie Julian in Paris from 1908-1909 with Jean Paul Laurens. At the National Academy of Design, he was an Associate (1920) and full Academician (1927). In addition, Kroll was a member of the New Society of Artists; Philadelphia Art Club; American Society of Painters and Sculptors (president, 1931-1935); Boston Art Club; National Institute of Arts and Letters (vice-president, 1943); American Academy of Arts and Letters (1950, director and chairman of the art committee); Woodstock Art Association; and the National Art Club (life member). His first of many solo exhibitions was given in 1910 at the National Academy of Design.

Kroll won awards at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art (1927, 1930); Salmagundi Club (1912); Pan-Pacific Exposition (1915); Art Institute of Chicago (1919, 1924, where he showed his work in a two-man show with George Bellows); Wilmington SFA (1921); National Academy of Design (1921, 1922, 1932, 1935, 1943, 1965); the Carnegie Institute (1926, 1936); Newport AA (1929, 1939); National Arts Club (1930); Boston Art Club (1932); International Exposition, Paris (1937); Philadelphia Art Alliance (1941); and the Chevalier, Legion of Honor, France (1950).

Kroll's works have been collected by and impressive list of institutions: the Corcoran Gallery of Art; PAFA; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Museum of Modern Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Carnegie Institute; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Dayton Art Institute; Detroit Institute of Art; Denver Art Museum; San Diego Fine Art Society; Norton Gallery; St. Louis Museum of Art; John Herron Art Institute and hundreds more. In addition, he was commissioned to do murals for the U.S. Military Cemetery, Omaha Beach, France and the John Hopkins University Auditorium. He taught at the National Academy, the Maryland Institute of Art, the PAFA and the Arts Student League and painted in the Gloucester artists' community by 1912.

Raised in Washington, DC, Mary Lewis (Hall) Carey attended the Holton Arms School and studied painting at the National Academy of Design in New York City. Interestingly, portraits were her specialty. In fact, her portrait of Baltimore mayor Thomas D'Alesandro II hangs in City Hall. Works by Hall also hang at the Johns Hopkins University, Sheppard Pratt Hospital, the Maryland Club, and the Gilman School. Her works have also been exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art (1944) and the Hilltop Theater Art Gallery (1958), as well as the Corcoran and Phillips galleries in Washington.

See another issue of this portrait with a dedication to his friend and colleague Mary Lewis Hall (1910-1986) - https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/SAWA101/Leon-Kroll/Portrait-of-Woman

Provenance: private Jon and Mary Williams collection, Boulder, Colorado, USA; Mary Williams has represented some of America's finest artists and has more than 35 years of experience as a trusted source for quality paintings, sculpture, and antique prints and maps.

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Condition

Only slight toning to paper, but otherwise very good. Signed on lower right. Matted and framed under glass. A very informative old gallery biography label of Leon Kroll is on the gallery paper on the verso.
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