Object Record
Images
Metadata
Title |
Project New Day |
Artist |
Lebby, Larry Francis |
Date |
1979 |
Medium |
lithograph |
Support |
arches buff acid free rag paper |
Dimensions |
22 1/2 x 19 inches |
Signature |
Larry Francis Lebby |
Signature Location |
bottom right |
Credit line |
Museum Purchase with funds provided by the Anna Heyward Taylor Fund |
Accession Number |
2000.017 |
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. Project New Day shows the mastery and emotion that Lebby evokes with the lithography stone. He depicts his daughter sitting with his great aunt and uncle. |
Subjects |
African Americans Family Portraits Trees Figures |
Image |
012\2000.17.JPG |