Harry Leith-Ross

Harry Leith-Ross (1886-1973) was a Mauritius-born, US-based British landscape painter. He exhibited his artwork at the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and he won prizes from the Salmagundi Club and the American Watercolor Society.

Early life

Harry Leith-Ross was born on January 27, 1886 in Mauritius.[1][2][3]

Leith-Ross was educated in England and Scotland,[2] and he studied engineering at the University of Birmingham.[3] He subsequently studied art at the Académie Delécluse and the Académie Julian in Paris.[3] He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1910.[3]

Leith-Ross served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army during World War I.[3]

Career

Leith-Ross emigrated to the United States in 1903, where he first worked for his uncle's coal company.[3] He subsequently took up advertising work in Denver, Colorado.[3]

Leith-Ross exhibited his oil and watercolor paintings at the National Academy of Design and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the 1910s,[2] and the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1920s.[3] He became a member of the art colony in Woodstock, New York.[4] He won prizes from the Salmagundi Club and the American Watercolor Society.[2]

Leith-Ross authored a book about landscape painting. His artwork is held in private collections,[5] and exhibited at the James A. Michener Art Museum and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.[1][2]

Death

Leith-Ross died in 1973 in New Hope, Pennsylvania.[2][1]

Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Harry Leith-Ross". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Harry Leith-Ross". James A. Michener Art Museum. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Peterson, Peter H. (2002). Pennsylvania Impressionism. Doylestown, Pennsylvania: James A. Michener Art Museum. p. 156. ISBN 9780812237009. OCLC 237808236.
  4. ↑ Love, Richard H.; Peters, Carl William (2009). Carl W. Peters: American Scene Painter from Rochester to Rockport. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. p. 353. ISBN 9781580460248. OCLC 39796121.
  5. ↑ "Harry Leith-Ross - Artworks". The Athenaeum. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
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