The Park-Winter (1923): Art, History and Details

The Park-Winter (1923) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Leon Kroll (American, 1884–1974).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

During the 1920s, Kroll earned a great deal of success painting scenes of everyday urban life. In this example, he depicted ice skaters on a pond in snow-covered Central Park, with a looming skyline of Manhattan apartment buildings in the background.

Object facts

• Title: The Park-Winter
• Date: 1923
• Creator attribution: Leon Kroll (American, 1884–1974)
• Culture: America
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Unframed: 91.5 x 122 cm (36 x 48 1/16 in.); Framed: 109.2 x 139.7 x 7.6 cm (43 x 55 x 3 in.)
• Collection: American - Painting
• Department: American Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1923.1339

A detail from the museum

A fellow artist described Leon Kroll as having "the eye of a hawk and the heart of a dove."

Collection credit

Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of an Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 until Today at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: [Printed by the Artcraft Printing Co.], 1937.
• "Comment." The Arts. 3:4 (April, 1923). pp. 290-293.
• Milliken, William M. "The Third Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 10:6 (June 1923). pp. 102-107, 109-112, 119.

View the collection record

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