Lot 139
  • 139

Harry Leith-Ross

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Harry Leith-Ross
  • Soldier's Grave
  • signed Leith-Ross (lower left)
  • oil on canvas
  • 24 by 38 inches
  • (61 by 96.5 cm)
  • Painted in 1948.

Provenance

Dr. James Powell, Pennsylvania
Gift from the above to the present owner

Exhibited

Philadelphia, Woodmere Gallery, 1948, prize winner
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, 1948 
New York, National Academy of Design, 149th Annual Exhibition, 1974, no. 118, p. 15

Condition

Oil on canvas, canvas is not lined. Surface: In generally good condition. UNDER UV: A few scattered lines of strengthening in the drifts of snow and the snow on the bushes.
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