© Estate of Francis Orville Libby
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Northern Lights
Francis Orville Libby, 1883–1961; born and died Portland, Maine; active London, England and New York, NY
x1964-44
Information
Title
Northern Lights
Maker
Medium
Watercolor
Dimensions
37.5 x 56 cm. (14 3/4 x 22 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, for the Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection
Object Number
x1964-44
Signatures
Signed in red watercolor, lower left: Libby
Inscription
in graphite, on verso: The Lonely Lake. Northern Lights - Lac Trois Cariboux
Culture
Type
Materials
- "Acquisitions of 1964", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24, no. 1 (1965): p. 20-23., p. 23
- "The Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Jr., Memorial Collection," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University, vol. 36, no. 2 (1977): p. 24-32., p. 30
- John Wilmerding et al., American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum: volume 1: drawings and watercolors, (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum; New Haven, CT; London: Yale University Press, 2004), p. 224, cat. no. 57; p. 225 (illus.); p. 339, checklist no. 837
