NOVEMBER FINE SOUTHERN ESTATES
Lot 66:
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Larry Francis Lebby 1988 Magnolia Lithograph. Professionally Framed. Larry Francis Lebby, (September 8, 1950 – July 21, 2019) a native South Carolinian, was a nationally known painter, printmaker and artist working in Columbia, South Carolina. Lebby was one of the Black students to integrate Airport High School. He attended Allen University and transferred to the University of South Carolina, graduating with a Master of Fine Arts in 1976. Lebby served on the board of the South Carolina Arts Commission (affiliated with the National Endowment for the Arts) and on the Governor’s Task Force for the Arts.Lebby was known for his portraiture: a number of his state and other commissioned portraits of famous legislators, judges, educators and activists hang in the South Carolina State House and other public spaces. Lebby was commissioned to create the portrait of Senator Pinckney after the murder of Pinckney and eight others in the Charleston church shooting in 2015. The portrait was unveiled in May 2016, and hangs in the South Carolina Senate chambers. Measures 39" x 31", weighs 16 lbs.
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