1. Harry "Tony" Leith-Ross was a British-American landscape painter and teacher.
18 Facts About Harry Leith-Ross
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Harry Leith-Ross taught at the art colonies in Woodstock, New York and Rockport, Maine, and later was part of the art colony in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
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Harry Leith-Ross's mother was the daughter of Dutch politician Samuel van Houten, and his younger brother was Scottish economist Sir Frederick Leith-Ross.
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Harry Leith-Ross was educated in England and Scotland, and studied engineering at the University of Birmingham for a year.
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Harry Leith-Ross emigrated to the United States at age 17 in 1903, and worked for his uncle's coal company.
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Harry Leith-Ross subsequently took up advertising work in Denver, Colorado.
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Harry Leith-Ross travelled to Paris in 1909, and studied art at the Academie Delecluse and the Academie Julian.
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Harry Leith-Ross studied in New York City at the National Academy of Design School under Charles Yardley Turner, beginning in 1910.
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The Art Students League of New York operated a summer painting school in Woodstock, New York, which Harry Leith-Ross first attended in 1913.
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Harry Leith-Ross's instructors included Birge Harrison and John F Carlson.
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Folinsbee married in 1914, and he and his wife settled in New Hope, Pennsylvania in 1916, where Harry Leith-Ross was a frequent houseguest.
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Harry Leith-Ross met student Emily Slaymaker in Summer 1925, and they were married later that year.
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Harry Leith-Ross exhibited oil and watercolor paintings at the National Academy of Design in the 1910s, and at the Art Institute of Chicago in the 1920s.
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Harry Leith-Ross exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts most years from 1916 to 1952, and won prizes from the Salmagundi Club and the American Watercolor Society.
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Harry Leith-Ross was elected an Associate of the National Academy of Design in 1928, and Folinsbee painted his diploma portrait.
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Harry Leith-Ross appeared in at least three other paintings by Folinsbee.
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Harry Leith-Ross expressed his philosophy about painting in The Landscape Painter's Manual, Watson Guptill Publications.
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Harry Leith-Ross's works are in the permanent collections of the James A Michener Art Museum, the Woodmere Art Museum, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and many private collections.