Artist Leon Kroll and his wife visited Des Moines and stayed with the Carpenter's at Oakwood.
He studied at the National Academy of Design between 1935 and 1941 with Leon Kroll and held his first solo exhibition in 1947 at the New York Contemporary Arts Gallery.
Leon Trotsky | León | Kings of Leon | Nuevo León | Leon Russell | León, Guanajuato | Jean-Léon Gérôme | Kingdom of León | Leon | Saint-Pol-de-Léon | Leon René | Leon Lai | Léon Blum | Leon Redbone | León, Nicaragua | Angelu de Leon | Province of León | Leon County, Florida | Leon Battista Alberti | León, Spain | Leon Panetta | Kings Of Leon | Juan Ponce de León | André Leon Talley | Oscar D'León | Leon Ware | Leon Morris | León Gieco | Leon Dewan | Leon Botstein |
The show featured easel works by George Bellows, Robert Henri, F. Martin Hennings, and Leon Kroll, who were working in the Southwest at that time, along with the "Taos Six" (Oscar E. Berninghaus, Ernest Blumenschein, Irving Couse, Herbert Dunton, Bert Geer Phillips, and Joseph Henry Sharp) and other members of the Taos Society.
He began formal art studies at the age of eleven at the Leonardo da Vinci School located at St. Mark's Church on E.10th St. He studied at the National Academy of Design under Leon Kroll, Art Students League of New York, Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, and the Rome Academy of Fine Arts.
There is a large 48x31" portrait of a 24-year-old, foppish Komroff, dated 1914 by Leon Kroll in the Portland Museum of Art ( Maine).