HARRY LEITH-ROSS (AMERICAN 1886–1973) "BACK DOOR"

Signed with the artist's initials 'LR' bottom left; also with a certificate of authenticity by the Artist's daughter verso, oil on board
10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in. (26.7 x 21cm)
Executed in 1936.

Provenance: Artfull Eye Gallery, Lambertville, New Jersey.
Acquired directly from the above in 1992.
Collection of Bonnie O'Boyle, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
EXHIBITED:
"Earth, River and Light: Masterworks of Pennsylvania Impressionism," James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, September 21-December 29, 2002; and Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, June 28-September 28, 2003 (traveling exhibition).
"Poetry In Design: The Art of Harry Leith-Ross," James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, May 12-October 1, 2006; and Della Penna Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2006-February 18, 2007 (traveling exhibition, illustrated in the exhibition catalogue p. 45).
"The Painterly Voice: Bucks County's Fertile Ground," James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2011-April 1, 2012.
LITERATURE:
Brian H. Peterson, Pennsylvania Impressionism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, p. 160, fig. 73 (illustrated).