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Francis Orville Libby

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

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 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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8 Book References for Francis Orville Libby
Year Author Title Pages Color
2012 Libby, Gary R. Reflections II: Watercolors of Florida 1835-2000 360 Yes
2005 AskART.com Inc. -
Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1936 Breckinridge, Mrs. (essay) First National Exhibition of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 32 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
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