Howard Leigh

A fine American painter, etcher and lithographer, Howard Leigh studied art at Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, under John Albert Seaford. He graduated from Earlham in 1918 and then established a studio in Paris, France, for the following three years. There he both finished his studies at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and worked upon a commissioned series of lithographs of European buildings damaged during the First World War. This large and impressive lithograph of the fountain at Carmona, Spain, was created by Leigh during this time. Howard Leigh returned to the United States shortly after 1921 but continued to show his art in France. In 1927 his art won for him an Honourable Mention at the Paris Salon. Living mainly in Chicago, Leigh exhibited his art extensively in the United States throughout the 1920's and 1930's. In 1938 Howard Leigh moved to Mexico where he lived and worked until his death in 1981. Today the graphic art of Howard Leigh is included in the following public collections; the Musee de la Guerre, Paris, the New York Public Library, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Public Library and the Smithsonian Institute. Recently Earlham College launched a large retrospective of his art.

(Source: http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/leigh_howard_fountaincarmona.htm, Accessed April 30, 2004)