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Francis Orville Libby

Francis Orville Libby (1883 - 1961) was active/lived in Maine, Florida / England.  Francis Libby is known for Landscape, seascape and coastal view painting.

Francis Orville Libby was born in Portland, Maine in 1883. After a Princeton fine art education, and extended trips to Europe to study fine art, Libby first exhibited his oil paintings and watercolors as a member of the Salmagundi Club in New York City where he lived after his graduation and early travels.

Later and with studios eventually in Maine, New York and London, England where he was a member of the London Salon, Libby regularly exhibited his work at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago and the Boston Art Club.

Princeton University and Bowdoin College both hold examples of his work including landscape and seascape watercolors done in Florida in and around St. Augustine on the northeast coast of the State beginning in the 1920s.

Francis Orville Libby died near Portland, Maine in 1961.

His work is included in the collection of the Cici and Hyatt Brown Museum of Art of the Museum of Arts a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1160 characters.]  Artist bio

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