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Many times a Carnegie exhibitor, Leon Kroll had never won a Carnegie Prize until last week. Famed for his nudes, his bright, formalized landscapes, Artist Kroll has hung canvases at Pittsburgh's great international show for 23 years, took an Honorable Mention in 1925, was even a member of the Carnegie jury in 1929. Reckoned by quantity of output, Artist Kroll stood less chance of winning this year than at any time since 1913. So far this year he has done just one oil. Last week that proved sufficient to take his country's highest painting honor...
Working for the Federal Government, Artist Kroll has spent the entire year on two enormous lunettes representing the Defeat and Triumph of Justice for the Attorney General's new conference room.* They are not yet finished, for Artist Kroll takes his commission seriously, has found mural painting more difficult than he expected. In July and August he went on vacation to his favorite Folly Cove, Cape Ann, Mass., where he has summered since 1930. He set up an easel in the back garden, painted the only canvas he has had time for since starting work on the Department...
When the jury last week decided that Artist Kroll's picture outranked all of these, it also awarded the second prize of $600 to spectacled French Post-Impressionist Pierre Bonnard for a gaily colored still life of a breakfast table, the $500 third prize to a study of two stolid peasant women leaning over a table, the work of Spain's Pedro de Valencia...
...surrealist South of Scranton as the work of a decadent school of non- sense. In 1935 Spanish Hipólito Hidalgo de Caviedes' prizewinning picture of a young Negro couple on a sofa was held inferior to dozens of U. S. paintings of the same type. Of Leon Kroll's Road From the Cove Critic Henry McBride wrote in the New York...
Excellent but unnewsworthy were examples of other famed members of the Society, Walter Pach, John Sloan, Stuart Davis, Rockwell Kent, Leon Kroll. Maurice Sterne and the late George Bellows, Maurice B. Prendergast. Glenn O. Coleman, "Pop" Hart and Alfred Maurer...