Breezy Day - Provincetown
Oil on canvas
25 1/4 x 35 1/4 inches,
Framed: 35 x 45 inches
Framed: 35 x 45 inches
Signed: Groll lower left
artist
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.
provenance
Greenwich Gallery, CT
Private collection Connecticut