Oil/Pastel on Canvas painting by Louis Kronberg, Dancer in Yellow, American, signed and dated Circa 1905.  
Provenance: From a Southern California Estate
Painter:  Louis Kronberg, often referred to s "The American Degas" was born in Boston in 1872.  He became a student at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston where he was influenced by the Tarbell-Benson manner.  By 1889, he was in New York where he sought new inspiration at the Art Students League.  Then in is early twenties, he sailed for Europe.  Once in Paris (1894-97) Kronberg enrolled in the Academie Julian and he came to know the work of Degas and impressionism.  When he returned to America, he exhibited paintings at the Boston Art Club, The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, The Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Academy of Design.  He also exhibited pastels in the Paris salons and in 1900 he showed a pastel at the Exposition Universelle.