Kroll, Leon, b. 1884 d. 1974

Leon Kroll papers, 1905-1974

6.0 linear ft.
Reel(s): D326-D331

Correspondence; biographical material; photographs; drawings and sketches; account books; sketchbooks; mailing lists; addresses and an address book; exhibition catalogs; clippings; printed material; and miscellaneous items.

REELS D326-D331: Correspondence with family, artists, museums and galleries, relating to family matters, exhibitions of Kroll's work, sales, teaching, artists' organizations, the Woodstock art community, government and the arts, and hispersonal associations with a wide circle of friends. Also included are biographical material; photographs; drawings and sketches; addresses; exhibition catalogs; clippings; and miscellaneous items.

Among the correspondents are: John Taylor Arms, Peggy Bacon, Hugo Ballin, Gifford Beal, George Bellows, Emma Bellows, George Biddle, Henry Billings, Isabel Bishop, Edwin Blashfield, Ernest Blumenschein, Louis Bouche, Francis S.Bradford, Edward Bruce, Walter H. Cady, Alexander S. Calder, Kenneth Callahan, Rhys Caparn, John Carroll, Marc Chagall, Griffin B. Coale, Arthur S. Covey, Arthur Crisp, Andrew Dasburg, Robert Delaunay, C. Edmund Delbos, Julius Delbos, Olin Dows, Marcel Duchamp, Andre Dunoyer De Segonzac, Philip Evergood, Alfeo Faggi, Barry Faulkner, Ernest Fiene, Joseph Floch, Richard Florsheim, John Folinsbee, Daniel Garber, Howard Giles, Edith Glackens, Ira Glackens, Albert Gleizes, Harry Gottlieb, Marion Greenwood, Lena Gurr, Robert Gwathmey,Samuel Halpert, Robert Henri, Joseph Hirsch, Malvina Hoffman, Charles S. Hopkinson, Edward Hopper, Ernest Lawson, Lois Lenski, Hayley Lever, George Luks,

Oronzio Maldarelli, Paul Manship, Berta Margoulies, Ezio Martinelli, Henry McFee, Gari Melchers, William Meyerowitz, Frank Mechau, Carl Milles, Jerome Myers, Hobart Nichols, Ivan Olinsky, Violet Organ, Georgette Passedoit, Hobson Pittman, Andree Ruellan, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Henry Schnakenberg, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, Eugene Speicher, Maurice Sterne, Albert Sterner, Marie Sterner, Florine Stettheimer, Stuyvesant Van Veen, Franklin Watkins, Max Weber, Esther Williams, Frank Lloyd Wright, Andrew Wyeth, Karl Zerbe, William Zorach, and Fernando Zuloaga.

Among the photographs are 1 of Kroll in his studio and 4 of him with John Taylor Arms, Carl Frieseke, Gordon Grant, Reginald Marsh, Homer Saint-Gaudens, Paul Sample, John Sloan, Raphael Soyer, and Eugene Speicher; photographs of portraits which Kroll painted of Rhys Caparn, Johannes Steel, and Edward Bruce; 3 photographs of Edward Bruce and 1 of his painting; and photographs of works by James Russell, William Thon, and Jonas Lie.

UNMICROFILMED: Correspondence; sketchbooks; photographs; account books; mailing lists and an address book; catalogs; clippings; and printed matter.

Material on reels D326-D331 donated 1968 by Leon Kroll; unmicrofilmed material donated 1976 by Mrs. Leon Kroll, widow of Kroll.

Subjects:

• Arms, John Taylor
• Artists' studios
• Bacon, Peggy
• Ballin, Hugo
• Beal, Gifford
• Biddle, George
• Billings, Henry
• Blashfield, Edwin Howland
• Blumenschein, Ernest Leonard
• Bouché, Louis George
• Bradford, Francis Scott
• Bruce, Edward
• Cady, Harrison
• Calder, Alexander Stirling
• Callahan, Kenneth L.
• Caparn, Rhys
• Carroll, John
• Chagall, Marc
• Coale, Griffith Baily
• Covey, Arthur Sinclair
• Dasburg, Andrew Michael
• Delaunay, Robert
• Delbos, C. Edmund
• Delbos, Julius M.
• Dows, Olin
• Duchamp, Marcel
• Dunoyer de Segonzac, André
• Evergood, Philip Howard
• Faggi, Alfeo
• Faulkner, Barry
• Fiene, Ernest
• Floch, Joseph
• Florsheim, Richard A.
• Folinsbee, John Fulton
• Frieseke, Frederick C. (Frederick Carl)
• Garber, Daniel
• Giles, Howard
• Glackens, Edith
• Glackens, Ira
• Gleizes, Albert
• Gottlieb, Harry
• Grant, Gordon
• Greenwood, Marion
• Gurr, Lena
• Gwathmey, Robert
• Halpert, Samuel
• Hirsch, Joseph
• Hoffman, Malvina
• Hopkinson, Charles
• Hopper, Edward
• Lawson, Ernest
• Lenski, Lois
• Lever, Hayley
• Lie, Jonas
• Luks, George Benjamin
• Maldarelli, Oronzio
• Manship, Paul Howard
• Margoulies, Berta O'Hare
• Marsh, Reginald
• Martinelli, Ezio
• McFee, Henry Lee
• Mechau, Frank Albert
• Meyerowitz, William
• Milles, Carl
• Myers, Jerome
• Nichols, Hobart
• Olinsky, Ivan G. (Ivan Gregorewitch)
• Organ, Violet
• Painters
• Painting, American
• Passedoit, Georgette
• Photographs
• Pittman, Hobson Lafayette
• Ruellan, Andrée
• Russell, James
• Saint-Gaudens, Homer
• Sample, Paul Starrett
• Schnakenberg, H. E. (Henry Ernest)
• Sketchbooks
• Sloan, John French
• Soyer, Raphael
• Steel, Johannes
• Sterner, Albert
• Sterner, Marie
• Stettheimer, Florine
• Thon, William
• Van Veen, Stuyvesant
• Watkins, Franklin Chenault
• Williams, Esther
• Wright, Frank Lloyd
• Zerbe, Karl
• Zorach, William
• Zuloaga, Fernando O.

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