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Teachers
and Influences
Henri Laurens, Delecluse, Academie Julian, Paris
Stanhope Forbes, Royal Academy, London
Birge Harrison, John Carlson, Art Student's League, Woodstock, New York
Connection
to Bucks County
Harry Leith-Ross heard of the New Hope art community while attending the
Art Students League in Woodstock, New York.
He first
visited in the summer of 1914 to paint and made several return trips to
visit artist friends, most notably John F. Folinsbee whom he met when
the two were students in Woodstock. Leith-Ross settled permanently in
New Hope in 1935 when he temporarily took over teaching duties for John
F. Folinsbee, a former classmate who was summering in Maine.
In the ensuing
years, the artist would become an integral part of the New Hope art community.
He lived and worked here until his death in 1973.
Harry and
Emily Leith Ross lived in the Jericho Valley area of Solebury, near New
Hope. They were neighbors with Nondas Metcalfe Case and Nelson Case.
Emily Leith
Ross was active with the Phillip's Mill Community Association and wrote
many plays for Mill performances up until the 1950s.
Colleagues
and Affiliations
Painters John Fulton Folinsbee, Daniel Garber, Charles Child, George Sotter,
Clarence Carter
Member and a director of Phillip's Mill Community Art Association, New
Hope, Pennsylvania
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