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Title:Nita Reading
Artist:Leon Kroll (American, New York 1884–1974 Gloucester, Massachusetts)
Date:ca. 1926
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:21 1/4 × 16 in. (54 × 40.6 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:George A. Hearn Fund, 1932
Object Number:32.61
Inscription: Signed (lower right): Leon Kroll
[Milch Galleries, New York, 1932; sold to MMA]
New York. Frank K. M. Rehn. "Paintings and Drawings by Leon Kroll," January 3–22, 1927, no. 5.
Boston Art Club. "Leon Kroll, Allen Tucker, and Reynolds Beal," March 1927.
New York. Downtown Gallery. "Paris by Americans," October 7–28, 1928, no. 6.
Worcester Art Museum. "Leon Kroll," December 1–19, 1937, no. 12 (dated 1925).
Omaha. Joslyn Memorial. "Contemporary American Paintings," June 23–September 1, 1941, no catalogue.
Beaumont, Tex. Beaumont Women's Club. October 7–28, 1941.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences. "Paintings by American Artists," December 1941.
Halloran General Hospital, Staten Island. February 26–October 11, 1943 (among a series of loans made to this army hospital).
Pasadena Art Institute. March 15–May 15, 1947.
Venice. Biennale. "XXIV Biennale di Venezia," May 29–September 30, 1948, U.S. Pavilion no. 37.
New York. Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews. "American Painting," December 20, 1949–February 1, 1950, no catalogue.
Winnipeg Art Gallery. "European and American Paintings," January 21–February 17, 1951.
Norwich, Conn. Slater Memorial Museum. February 7–28, 1954, no catalogue.
Providence. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design. "The World of the Thirties," April 11–May 13, 1956, no catalogue.
New York. ACA Galleries. "Leon Kroll: Selections from Various Periods, 1913–1965," November 1–20, 1965.
Fort Lauderdale Museum of the Arts. "Leon Kroll (1884–1974): Paintings 1910–1960," January 9–February 24, 1980, no. 23.
"Boston." Art News 25 (March 26, 1927), p. 13.
Carlyle Burrows. "News and Exhibitions of the Week in Art." New York Herald Tribune (October 14, 1928), p. F10.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Art Galleries Offer a Rich Display." New York Times (October 14, 1928), p. X13.
"Museum Buys Portrait." New York Times (April 26, 1932), p. 24.
Edward Alden Jewell. "The Metropolitan's New Policy: Recent Acquisition of Fifteen Works by Native Living Artists Symptomatic of Revised Trend—Is the Group Representative?" New York Times (June 26, 1932), p. X6.
"Metropolitan Buys Nine Paintings by American Artists." Art News 30 (July 16, 1932), p. 4.
"Through the Galleries." Town and Country 87 (April 1,1932), p. 41, ill.
"A Kroll Bought by Metropolitan." Art News 30 (April 30, 1932), p. 7, ill.
"Metropolitan Museum Buys a Kroll Painting." Art Digest 6 (May 15, 1932), p. 9, ill.
"Painting Acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art." New York Times (March 21, 1935), p. 26.
"Academy Shows Pictures Bought by Metropolitan." New York Herald Tribune (March 21, 1935), p. 5.
Edward Alden Jewell. "Kroll Landscapes and Figures Seen." New York Times (April 23, 1935), p. 19.
"Paintings Bought by Metropolitan." Art News 33 (March 30, 1935), p. 12.
Leonard Thiessen. "Art." Sunday World-Herald Omaha (July 20, 1941), p. 7-C.
"The Americans at Venice." Art News 47 (September 1948), p. 25.
Leon Kroll (American, New York 1884–1974 Gloucester, Massachusetts)
1933–34
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