Estimate: $12,000 - $18,000
American Art & Pennsylvania Impressionists
Auction: June 5, 2016 3:00:00 PM EDT
Signed 'Leith-Ross' bottom right; also inscribed with artist and title on stretcher verso, oil on canvas
24 x 30 in. (61 x 76.2cm)
Executed in 1931.
Provenance: Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
EXHIBITED:
"Pennsylvania Impressionists," The James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, June 16, 1990-August 26, 1990.
"Poetry in Design: The Art of Harry Leith-Ross," The James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, May 12-October 10, 2006; and Della Penna Gallery, New Hope, Pennsylvania, October 28, 2006-February 18, 2007 (traveling exhibition).
LITERATURE:
Erika Jaeger-Smith, Poetry in Design: The Art of Harry Leith-Ross, The James A. Michener Museum of Art and University of Pennsylvania, 2006, p. 41 (illustrated).
NOTE:
Polperro is a village and fishing harbor on the southeast Cornwall coast in the southwest of England. Cornwall was a popular destination for the Pennsylvania Impressionists, particularly Walter Elmer Schofield.