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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
FRANCIS ORVILLE LIBBY (1883-1961) Group of 10 fascinating Pictorialist landscapes and seascapes of New England. Multiple gum bichromate prints, the images measuring 13 1/4x7 1/4 to 16x13 inches (33.7x18.4 to 40.6x33 cm.), the mounts 18x15 1/2 to 25x19 3/4 inches (45.7x39.4 to 63.5x50.2 cm.), each with Libby's signature, on print recto or mount recto or verso, 9 with a title, several with a date and F.R.P.S., in ink, or the P.P.P. debossed hand stamp, on recto; some with Libby's original prices and exhibition labels assoicated with Pictorialist salons on mounts verso; one with his printing notations. 1916-22
From the Estate of Francis Orville Libby; to the Portland Camera Club. A Maine-based artist, Libby was a member of the Portland Photo Pictorialists [P.P.P.] and was a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
