id: 93015
accession number: 1923.1339
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.1339
updated: 2025-12-08 14:37:28.573000
The Park-Winter, 1923. Leon Kroll (American, 1884–1974). Oil on canvas; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection, 1923.1339
title: The Park-Winter
title in original language:
series:
series in original language:
creation date: 1923
creation date earliest: 1923
creation date latest: 1923
current location:
creditline: Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection
copyright:
---
culture: America
technique: oil on canvas
department: American Painting and Sculpture
collection: American - Painting
type: Painting
find spot:
catalogue raisonne:
---
CREATORS
* Leon Kroll (American, 1884–1974) - artist
---
measurements: 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.)
state of the work:
edition of the work:
support materials:
inscriptions:
inscription: signed lower right: Leon Kroll 1923
translation:
remark:
---
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today
opening date: 1937-06-23T04:00:00
Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-October 4, 1937).
title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition
opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941).
title: Exhibition of History and Art of the Olympic Games
opening date: 1968-09-12T04:00:00
Exhibition of History and Art of the Olympic Games. Universidad Iberoamericana Ciudad de México, Lomas de Santa Fe, Ciudad de México, Mexico (September 12-November 30, 1968).
title: Art of the Twenties: American Painting at the Crossroads
opening date: 1978-11-16T05:00:00
Art of the Twenties: American Painting at the Crossroads. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI (organizer) (November 16, 1978-January 21, 1979).
---
LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'New York, National Academy of the Arts, Spring Exhibition (1923), see References: The Arts for review; cat. no. 2.', 'opening_date': '1923-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Third Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting (7 June-8 July 1923), see The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art (June, 1923), illus. inside cover, pp. 103-113.', 'opening_date': '1923-06-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Pittsburgh, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, Leon Kroll Exhibition of Paintings (25 April-2 June 1935), cat. no. 19, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1935-04-25T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Worcester, MA, Worcester Art Museum, Leon Kroll (1-19 December 1937), cat. no. 8.', 'opening_date': '1937-12-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, An Exhibition of American Painting from 1860 Until Today at The Cleveland Museum of Art (23 June-4 October 1937), cat. no. 115, listed p. 30.', 'opening_date': '1937-06-23T00:00:00'}
* {'description': "Paris, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Trois Siecles d'Art aux Etats-Unis (May-July 1938), cat. no. 106, p. 42, not illus.", 'opening_date': '1938-05-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The is Our City: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, & Prints (11 March-13 April, 1941), cat. no. 43, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1941-03-11T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, The Century Club, Life in New York City (1954)', 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sport in Art: From American Collections Assembled for an Olympic Year (15 November-15 December, 1955); traveled to Washington, D. C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, (5-30 January, 1956); to Louisville, J. B. Speed Art Museum, (14 February-10 March, 1956); to Dallas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts (25 March-20 April, 1956); to Denver, Denver Art Museum (5-30 May, 1956); San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, (28 July-26 August 1956); intended for Melbourne, Australia, Olympic Games, but this stop was cancelled; cat. no. 66, not illus.', 'opening_date': '1955-11-15T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Davenport, Iowa, Davenport Municipal Art Gallery, Sports and Recreation Panorama (4 April-4 May 1959), cat. no. 53, illus. p. 6, listed p. 8.', 'opening_date': '1959-04-04T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, The National Museum of Sport Inc., Premiere Exhibition (Mid-February-Mid-April, 1968)', 'opening_date': '1968-04-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Mexico City, XIX Olympiad, Exhibition of History and Art of the Olympic Games (12 September-30 November 1968)', 'opening_date': '1968-09-12T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Flint, MI, Flint Institute of Arts, Art of the Twenties: American Painting at the Crossroads (16 November 1978-21 January 1979), cat. no. 25, illus. p. 37.', 'opening_date': '1978-11-16T00:00:00'}
---
PROVENANCE
Leon Kroll, 1923
date:
footnotes:
citations:
---
fun fact:
digital description:
wall description:
---
RELATED WORKS
---
CITATIONS
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.
page number: Mentioned: p. 30, no. 115
url:
"Comment." The Arts. 3:4 (April, 1923). pp. 290-293.
page number: Reproduced: p. 293
url:
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.
page number: Reproduced: p. 102; Mentioned:pp. 103-104
url:
Karr, Benjamin. "Noted Kroll Painting Acquired by Museum." The Cleveland Leader, 15 July 1923.
page number:
url:
"'The Park-Winter,' by Leon Kroll." Christian Science Monitor, 21 July 1923.
page number: Reproduced
url:
Milliken, William M. "The Park-Winter by Leon Kroll." The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art. 10:8 (October, 1923). pp. 141-143.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 141-143
url:
"In Holiday Show of Pictures." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, OH), November, 24 1939.
page number: Reproduced: p. 11
url:
Kroll, Leon. Leon Kroll. New York: American Artists Group, 1946.
page number: Reproduced: Front cover
url:
Saarinen, Aline B. "Art Storm Breaks on Dallas: Group Protests Showing of Work by Artists Called 'Left.'" The New York Times, February 12, 1956.
page number: Mentioned: p. X 15
url:
Grosser, Maurice. Critic's Eye. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1962.
page number: Mentioned: p. 166
url:
Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
page number: Reproduced: p. 122
url:
Carraro, Francine. "Seeing Red: the Dallas Museum in the McCarthy Era." Suspended License: Censorship and the Visual Arts, ed. Elizabeth C. Childs. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. pp. 235-258.
page number: Reproduced: p. 252
url:
---
IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1339/1923.1339_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1339/1923.1339_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.1339/1923.1339_full.tif