| Albert Groll will be forever associated with the desert landscape of Arizona and New Mexico in paintings and prints, but he came to the deserts and pueblos of the American southwest in his late thirties. Groll, while born in New York, chose to study at the Royal Academies in Antwerp and Munich as well as in London. After establishing himself in Eastern landscape painting, in 1906, he won the gold medal of the Pennsylvania Academy for Arizona. Soon after he found in the towering clouds and mesas of New Mexico and Arizona the subjects for his life’s work. Behind the beautiful paintings and etchings are careful drawings (presented here) that evoke the artist’s first impressions of cactus, mesa, rocks, and adobe in an era before art galleries and golf courses became the icons of the landscape of the southwest. |
