About The Artist:
Leon Kroll
Leon Kroll was a painter, lithographer, art critic and teacher who was born in 1884 in New York City. Living his professional life in New York City and Chicago, he summer in Rockport, MA and became one of the most popular and famous of its painters by 1920. Kroll studied at the Art Students League in New York City and with John H. Twachtman in 1901, the National Academy of Design in 1903 and the Academie Julian in Paris from 1908-1909 with Jean...
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About The Medium:
Charcoal
A form of dry art medium made of finely ground organic materials that are held together by a gum or wax binder or produced without the use of binders by eliminating the oxygen inside the material during the production process. Charcoal can produce lines that are very light or intensely black, while being easily removable, yet vulnerable to leaving stains on paper. The dry medium can be applied to almost any surface from smooth to very coarse.