Harry Leith-Ross
Harry "Tony" Leith-Ross (27 January 1886 – 15 March 1973) was a British-American landscape painter and teacher. He taught at the art colonies in Woodstock, New York and Rockport, Maine, and later was part of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania. A precise draftsman and a superb colorist, Leith-Ross is considered one of the Pennsylvania Impressionists.
Life and career
Harry Leith-Ross was born in
Leith-Ross was educated in England and Scotland,[3] and studied engineering at the University of Birmingham for a year.[4] He emigrated to the United States at age 17 in 1903, and worked for his uncle's coal company.[4] He subsequently took up advertising work in Denver, Colorado.[4] He travelled to Paris in 1909, and studied art at the Académie Delécluse and the Académie Julian.[4] He studied in New York City at the National Academy of Design School under Charles Yardley Turner, beginning in 1910.[4]
The
Leith-Ross served as a second lieutenant in the United States Army during World War I.[4]
After the war, Leith-Ross taught at the
He wrote a well-regarded book on landscape painting: Leith-Ross, Harry (1956). The Landscape Painter's Manual. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications.
Leith-Ross died in 1973 in Pineville, Pennsylvania.[3][2]
Exhibitions, awards and honors
Leith-Ross and Folinsbee had a joint exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art in November 1915.[9] Leith-Ross exhibited oil and watercolor paintings at the National Academy of Design in the 1910s,[3] and at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1920s.[4] He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts most years from 1916 to 1952,[10] and won prizes from the Salmagundi Club and the American Watercolor Society.[3]
Leith-Ross was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1928, and Folinsbee painted his diploma portrait.[11] Leith-Ross appeared in at least three other paintings by Folinsbee.[12]
Legacy
Leith-Ross expressed his philosophy about painting in The Landscape Painter's Manual (1956), Watson Guptill Publications.[2]
His works are in the permanent collections of the James A. Michener Art Museum,[3] the Woodmere Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[2] and many private collections.[13]
Leith-Ross's papers are at the University of Pennsylvania.[3]
The Michener Museum hosted a posthumous exhibition of his works, Poetry in Design: The Art of Harry Leith-Ross (October 2006 - March 2007).[4]
Leith-Ross's Connecticut Valley in Fall was appraised on Antiques Roadshow in 2017.[5]
Selected works
- Sunlight on Snow (1927),[14] Thomas Colville Fine Art, Guilford, Connecticut
- Lone Skater (c.1943),[15] Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Flag Station (1945),[16] Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The Sleigh (c.1945),[17] private collection
- Soldier's Grave (1948),[18] private collection
- Demolition (1954),[19] Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
- The Fair (1958),[20] Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Red Barn (undated),[21] James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
- Canal Dwellers (undated),[22] Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
References
- ^ U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
- ^ a b c "Harry Leith-Ross". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f "Harry Leith-Ross". James A. Michener Art Museum. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ OCLC 237808236.
- ^ Johnston, William (1894). A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of James Young, Merchant Burgess of Aberdeen and Rachel Cruickshank His Wife, 1697-1893, with Notes on Many of the Families with which They are Connected. University Press. p. 12. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- OCLC 39796121.
- ^ a b c d Kirsten M. Jensen, Folinsbee Considered. New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 2014.
- ^ Obituary: Harry Leith-Ross, Landscape Painter, The New York Times, March 17, 1973.
- ^ Florence N. Levy, ed., The American Art Annual, Volume 13 (Washington, D.C.: The American Federation of Art, 1916), p. 237.
- ^ Peter Hastings Falk, ed., The Annual Exhibition Record of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Volume 3, 1914-1968 (Madison, Connecticut: Sound View Press, 1989), pp. 289-290.
- ^ David Bernard Dearinger, Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design (NAD, Hudson Hills Press, 2004), p. 198.[1]
- ^ Leith-Ross, from John F. Folinsbee Catalogue Raisonee.
- ^ "Harry Leith-Ross - Artworks". The Athenaeum. Retrieved February 18, 2017.
- ^ Sunlight on Snow, from Thomas Colville Fine Art.
- ^ Lone Skater, from Woodmere Art Museum.
- ^ Flag Station, from PAFA.
- ^ The Sleigh, from Heritage Auctions.
- ^ Soldier's Grave, from Sotheby's Auctions.
- ^ Demolition, from SAAM.
- ^ The Fair, from Woodmere Art Museum.
- ^ Red Barn, From Michener Museum.
- ^ Canal Dwellers, from Woodmere Art Museum.