Hopi Mesa
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 41 x 51 inches
Daniel G. Reid Purchase Fund, 1908
Albert Loray Groll (1866 - 1952)
Albert Leroy Groll called himself "the only native New York artist". He studied at the Munich Academy. In 1899, he traveled to Arizona to paint the desert. He spent a long season studying the contours and varying light and color of desert scenes.
He kept a studio in New York, was a member of Salmagundi and Lotos Clubs, the National Academy, and the National Institute of Art and Letters. Albert Groll was a friend of Mrs. Ella Bond Johnston, Director of the Art Association of Richmond, and often entertained her on trips to New York with stories of life among the Navaho.
