Paula Gets the Mail
Signed lower right: Leith-Ross
Description
In Paula Gets the Mail, we see the influence of Leith-Ross’s early teacher, Birge Harrison, in the deep purple grey of the sky and the distant hills, juxtaposed against the warmth of the ochre fields. Paula, the lone figure in the landscape, quietly goes about her daily tasks, reminiscent of a peaceful life without worry of war or the Great Depression. The sharp architectural details of the two farmhouses offer a striking contrast to the loosely rendered foliage of the trees, showing Leith-Ross’s interest in both the vast beauty of the landscape and the pleasing geometry to be found in the framework of houses, docks, and bridges, and the way light and shadows play on those surfaces.
Provenance
Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
To collection of Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts, September 2011 to present
Inscriptions
Labels
- (stamp on Masonite): Reproduction Rights / Reserved by the Artist
- North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, exhibition label, 2012
- Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, New York / D 11339 / Artist: Leith-Ross, Harry / Title: Paula gets the Mail / Price: $500 Size: 15 ½/34 / Bin. No. SR-L
Exhibitions
NSAA at 90: Celebrating Nine Decades of Fine Art, 1922-2012, North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, August 16 – September 18, 2012
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting has minor in-paint along at the top edge and in the upper corners, and a few small spots along the lower edge, two brushy spots in the right sky and scattered specks in the center and right sky, and a small vertical line/spot to the upper left of the white house.
Frame Details
Description
In Paula Gets the Mail, we see the influence of Leith-Ross’s early teacher, Birge Harrison, in the deep purple grey of the sky and the distant hills, juxtaposed against the warmth of the ochre fields. Paula, the lone figure in the landscape, quietly goes about her daily tasks, reminiscent of a peaceful life without worry of war or the Great Depression. The sharp architectural details of the two farmhouses offer a striking contrast to the loosely rendered foliage of the trees, showing Leith-Ross’s interest in both the vast beauty of the landscape and the pleasing geometry to be found in the framework of houses, docks, and bridges, and the way light and shadows play on those surfaces.
Provenance
Collection, Boston, Massachusetts
To collection of Abbot W. and Marcia L. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts, September 2011 to present
Inscriptions
Labels
- (stamp on Masonite): Reproduction Rights / Reserved by the Artist
- North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, exhibition label, 2012
- Grand Central Art Galleries, Inc., New York, New York / D 11339 / Artist: Leith-Ross, Harry / Title: Paula gets the Mail / Price: $500 Size: 15 ½/34 / Bin. No. SR-L
Exhibitions
NSAA at 90: Celebrating Nine Decades of Fine Art, 1922-2012, North Shore Arts Association, Gloucester, Massachusetts, August 16 – September 18, 2012
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting has minor in-paint along at the top edge and in the upper corners, and a few small spots along the lower edge, two brushy spots in the right sky and scattered specks in the center and right sky, and a small vertical line/spot to the upper left of the white house.
