There is a calculated rationality to this representation, as if the artist set out to paint a classical nude through deliberate and careful simplification of form which has been influenced by his time in Europe studying Impressionism.
Leon Kroll (1884–1974), whose work is represented in our collection by two pieces, Girl with an Apple and a nude (both painted sometime between 1916–23), was a student of J. H. Twachtman, one of “The Ten.” Kroll would later win a fellowship to study at the famous Academie Julien in Paris. This Paris experience acquainted the artist with the work of the French impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
