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Ross, Ross McDonald
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Ross McDonald Ross was born in 1891 to a farming family in Lower Arboll, Talbat Parish in the northern Scottish region of Fearn, Ross-shire. Ross studied at The Glasgow School of Art between 1910 and 1915. Throughout this time, he lived in several student digs, including at the home of a Miss McNeill, situated at 146 Buccleuch Street and later at the home of a Miss Robertson, at 18 Willowbank Crescent. Ross' tuition was subsidised by Ross-shire Local Authority.
Ross attended The School as a day student of Drawing and Painting. We know that throughout his first two years, he was under the tutelage of the instructors Allan D. Mainds and Alexander L. Jackson, who both specialised in Antique, Ornament and Preparatory Life. For the academic year commencing in 1913, Ross received a bursary of £20, which was a great deal of money at the time (About the equivalent of £1,500 today).
Ross spent his later years in Warrenpoint, County Down, where he pursued an interest in watercolour landscape painting. Ross' earliest known paintings are of Coigach in Northwest Scotland, close to Reiff, where Ross spent his holidays as a child.
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- http://irishartindex.wordpress.com
- Donald McDonald Ross: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coigach/
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