Object Record
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Metadata
Title |
Steel Man |
Artist |
Lebby, Larry Francis |
Date |
1992 |
Medium |
india ink wash |
Support |
paper |
Dimensions |
23 x 19 inches |
Signature |
Larry Francis Lebby 1992 |
Signature Location |
bottom right |
Inscription |
Tom Gilford |
Inscription Location |
bottom right |
Credit line |
Museum Purchase |
Accession Number |
1999.005 |
Collection |
Work on Paper |
Description |
Larry Lebby remembers sketching on anything from paper bags to bed sheets at the age of four or five. The segregated school he attended could not afford an art teacher, so it was not until integration and his transfer to a predominantly white school that formal training began. His education continued at Allen University in Columbia and later at the University of South Carolina. During his years of training, Lebby experimented with a variety of mediums including watercolor, lithographs, graphite, Bic pens, berry juice, Worcestershire sauce and even tea. His works are often of children - a favorite subject - or family and acquaintances depicted in rural settings. |
Subjects |
Figures Portraits Clothing & dress Uniforms African Americans man |
Image |
011\1999.05.JPG |