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Early life and education
Ross was born in Cincinnati, Ohio to John Ludlow Ross (1813–1884), a wealthy businessman, and Fanny Walker Ross (née Waldo, 1826–1904). He had two older siblings who died before he was born.

At the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, the family moved to Boston, joining John Ross's brother Mathias Denman Ross and his wife Mary, who was Fanny Ross's sister, at their house at 76 Boylston St., across from Boston Common.

Ross was enrolled at an elementary school in Newton Corner. When his father's business took the family to New York City in 1862, Ross was tutored at home by his cousin Louise Nathurst, who was seven years his senior. By 1868, the family was living with M. Denman Ross in Jamaica Plain and the younger Ross entered Charles Knapp Dillaway's preparatory school, whose curriculum was designed for Harvard aspirants.

In 1871, Ross entered Harvard College. His father bought a house at 24 Craigie St., a few blocks from the school, and Denman lived at home. He studied history with Henry Adams and received a bachelor's degree in 1875, graduating with honors in history and election to Phi Beta Kappa.

Ross resumed his studies at Harvard as a post-graduate in the fall of 1876. For his thesis, Studies in the Early History of Institutions, he received a PhD in History in 1880.

Academic career
In 1881, inspired by the lectures of Harvard art historian Charles Eliot Norton, he sailed for Italy to study painting with Henry Roderick Newman. In 1889 he returned to Cambridge and started teaching (lecturer) in the architecture department at Harvard, officially joining the fine arts faculty as a lecturer on design and design theory in 1909.

Travel
When Ross was offered a professorship at Harvard, he turned it down, preferring to keep more flexible schedule that allowed him to travel. And travel he did.

He first went to Europe with his family when he was 12. From August 1865 to January 1886, they toured London, France, Switzerland and Germany. After graduating from Harvard, Ross took a year-long tour with his classmate and friend LeBaron Russell Briggs. They intended to study German in preparation for post-graduate studies but soon found the German climate and food unsuitable and moved on to Italy. Ross returned to Europe many times, usually with friends and family. (why and what, collecting yet?) • June–Sept 1877 Europe

• Aug–Sept 1881 Europe

• 1883–1884 Europe, book promo in August, with parents and Louise

• Apr–June 1887 Europe with Smith

• Feb–Apr 1891 Mexico Mother, Louise, Smith

• Apr 1892–July 1893 Europe Mother, Louise, Robert Gauley

• Aug 1895 – Mar 1896 Europe and Egypt with Smith, Arthur Carey, Mother, Louise, Gauley

• March 1902 California

• Aug–Oct 1904 Europe with Smith

• Feb–Nov 1907 Europe with Louise

• Aug–Dec 1908 Japan with Fridolf

• June 1910 – Jan 1911 Japan, China, Korea, Hanoi

• 1911 - Singapore, Cambodia, India, Ceylon with Smith, Louise, Ella Bates

• Aug 1912 –Sep 1912 - Japan, China, Indo-China, Burma, India, Egypt,

• 1913 - Europe with Louise, Arthur McClean, Hervey Wetzel

• Aug-Sep 1914 Cuba

• Jan-Apr 1916 Central America, Cuba with Louise

• 1919 - South America with Louise, Peter Tiegen

• Jan 1920 - Aug 1921 - Europe with same

• Feb Apr 1923 - Mexico, Central Am with Nakamura

• Feb - Sep 1924 - Europe with L and N

• Mar - Jul 1934 - Europe w Arthur Brown

• 1935 ditto

Painting
Art theorist and collector. "His writings advocating scientific principles as the basis for art interested many artists during the early twentieth century. Although Ross had no use for modern art, which he saw as idiosyncratic and irrational, he believed that identification of design universals would advance the progress of art by enabling artists to transcend the limits of traditional practice. Ross's interest in reconciling art and science was widespread at the time, and other popular theorists shared his goals. Ross's own thinking was influenced by the ideas of Hardesty Gillmore Maratta (1864–1924), who devised an influential color system, and Jay Hambidge (1867–1924), who attracted a following for his method of mathematically based design known as “dynamic symmetry.”" From: Ross, Denman  in  The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists » Hambidge (born Edward John) Ross's paintings are held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

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Arts and Crafts
Ross was an inflential figure in the Boston Arts and Crafts movement. He had taken Norton's first fine arts course in 1873

selection committee for the first exhibition in Copley Hall April... 1897.

Lecture given December 13, 1899 to the Harvard Camera Club

Selected bibliography

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A paper read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science, August 27, 1880.



Doctoral thesis


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Notes from December 13, 1899, lecture at the Harvard Camera Club.


 * (p229) Reprinted in Craftsman December 1904