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for a year. He emigrated to the United States at age 17 in 1903, and worked for his uncle's coal company. He subsequently took up advertising work in Denver, Colorado. He travelled to Paris in 1909, and studied art at the
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in 1916, where Leith-Ross was a frequent houseguest. Both men painted
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