Harry Leith-Ross ART FOR SALE

Portrait of Harry Leith-Ross: Self-portrait

1886 Mauritius, Indian Ocean - 1973 Pinesville, Pennsylvania. Known for: Landscape, shore-harbor-marine painting.

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Landscape painter Harry Leith-Ross was born in Mauritius in 1886, a British possession in the Indian Ocean. He came to America as a seventeen year old. Before beginning, some ten years later in 1914, his studies at the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, New York at the relatively late age of twenty-eight, Leith-Ross had worked as a commercial artist. He studied with John F. Carlson and Birge Harrison at the League Summer School, and later with C. Y. Turner at the National Academy of Design in New York City. He then went to Paris, studying with Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julien and in England with Stanhope Forbes. Long associated with the Bucks County artists' colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Leith-Ross may have first... Read full biography

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Paula Gets the Mail

Type:Painting

Size:15.25" x 34.00"

Medium:Oil

Signed:Lower Right

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In Paula Gets the Mail, we see the influence of his early teacher, Birge Harrison, in the deep purple grey of the sky and the distant hills, juxtaposed against the warmth of the ochre fields.