Albert Lorey Groll
Breezy Day, Provincetown Beach View
circa 1917

Name: Breezy Day, Provincetown Beach View
Brand: Albert Lorey Groll
Price: 29000 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Bright impressionist views done with almost pointillist brushwork are rare and even more so from this vantage point in Provincetown. It is in a high quality older French frame and it is an impressive painting. Although Albert Groll is known as a foremost painter of the American West, he spent the majority of his life and career in New York and New England. Before 1905, when he made his first visit to New Mexico, Groll painted expansive, landscapes throughout the Northeast, including this luminous canvas of a group of houses against the Cape Cod Bay. Canvas size 25 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches

Creator:

Albert Lorey Groll (1866 - 1952, American)

Creation Year:

circa 1917

Dimensions:

Height: 35 in (88.9 cm)Width: 45 in (114.3 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)

Medium:

Oil,Canvas

Movement & Style:

Impressionist

Period:

Early 20th Century

Condition:

In great condition and ready to hang no issues. The frame has an antiqued patina and may have very small flaws natural to this type of frame and finish!

Gallery Location:

Greenwich, CT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1413210270982

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Albert Lorey Groll

Albert Lorey Groll (1866–1952) was an American artist and etcher. He was born in New York City and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, Germany, the Royal Academy in Antwerp, Belgium, and for some time in London. In 1910 he was elected into the National Academy of Design. He is best known for his landscape paintings of the American Southwest. Groll was born in New York in 1866, the son of a pharmacist immigrant from Darmstadt, Germany. During his early years he travelled to Europe to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, then called Royal Academy of Fine Arts, under Nicholas Gysis and Ludwig von Löfftz. He also studied in London and in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium. Groll went back to New York in 1895 and moved from figure painting to landscape painting in part due to the high cost of hiring models. He also became well known as an etcher. In 1904 Groll made the first of several trips to the American Southwest, travelling to Arizona with ethnographer Stewart Culin of the Brooklyn Museum, and later going to New Mexico with his friend the artist and illustrator William Robinson Leigh. He mostly focused on oil paintings of the Native American lands, which were mostly realistic, however, encompassed some abstract shapes as well. The Laguna Pueblo people were impressed by Groll's paintings and gave him the name "Chief Bald Head Eagle Eye". Groll kept a studio in the Gainsborough Studios in Manhattan, and won several awards for his work in both Arizona and New York, such as the Salmagundi Club Shaw Prize in 1904, and a gold medal at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1906. He also won a George Inness gold medal in 1912 for his painting of Lake Louise in the Canadian Rockies. This medal was awarded in the annual exhibit of National Academy of Design from 1901 to 1918 to the best landscape paintings. In 1910 he was elected into the National Academy of Design, in 1919 Groll was elected as an associate member of the Taos Society of Artists, and in 1933 became a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He was also invited to join the American Watercolor Society. He died on 2 October 1952, aged 85 years old, with funeral services held at the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan.