While Kroll has become largely identified with the figurative tradition, he never gave up landscape and still-life painting. Perhaps his devoted following treasured his oeuvre – without limitations to any single subject – because he worked and painted according to his own ideals, often moving in a direction against the current trend.
Leon Kroll
Dancer, Folly Cove
Kroll’s “Portrait of Virginia Lee Burton Demetrios,” pencil on paper, showcased in the CAM’s “The Folly Cove Designers, 1941-1969,” reinforces the deep relational bonds between Kroll and the Folly Cove artists, notably “Jinnee” Demetrios and husband, George. Having spent over 60 summers on Cape Ann, is it possible he might have captured Jinnee in this artful and inspirational pose?