Ida Libby Dengrove

Ida Libby Leibovitz was born to Jewish parents in Philadelphia in 1918 where she later graduated in 1940, from Moore College of Art and Design. A portrait painter away from court, Mrs. Dengrove worked as a courtroom illustrator for NBC-TV from 1973 to 1986. It allowed her to take her sketch pad where cameras were forbidden and capture the proceedings in her own distinctive style. Her pictorial reportage won two Emmy awards. Her talent for capturing moods and nuance are apparent in her fine art paintings. She died in 2005