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Biography
Albert L. Groll b. 1866 New York City d. 1952 New York City Groll spent most of his art student years in Germany at the Royal Academy, and in London, England. He also studied at the Royal Academy in Antwerp, something few Americans were doing in the late 19th century. In 1895 he became exclusively a landscape painter because he could not afford to pay models for figure painting. Groll painted landscapes in Arizona and New Mexico, especially skyscapes with towering cloud formations. The Laguna Pueblo Indians of New Mexico were so admiring of his landscapes they named him Chief Bald-Head-Eagle Eye. He befriended L. Hubbell and wrote to him that the Southwestern paintings had been his lucky stars and a decided hit back east in New York. Paraphrased from AskArt
Albert L Groll
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