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Lowell Nesbitt Art

American, 1933-1993

Lowell Nesbitt was one of the most celebrated and noted artists for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, he made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well-known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as a theme. Beginning with his first show in 1957, Nesbitt had more than 80 one-man shows. His painting, drawings and prints are included in the collections of many prestigious museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Fine Art in New York and the National Gallery of Fine Art in Washington, D.C.

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Artist: Lowell Nesbitt
Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt "Rose Iris", 1982
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Washington, DC
Oil painting by Lowell Nesbitt (1933 - 1993). Titled "Rose Iris" and dated 1982. Wonderful vibrant painting in excellent condition. In 1958...
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1980s Pop Art Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1973, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1973 Year: 1973 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 38.5 x 26.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed ...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1977, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled Year: 1977 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 48.5 x 38.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & date...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1974, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1974 Year: 1974 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 38 x 23.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & d...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1980, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1980 Year: 1980 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 54.75 x 39.75 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1977, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1977 Year: 1977 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 52.5 x 40 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & d...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite

(Male Nude) Untitled, 1973, Original Drawing—Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: (Male Nude) Untitled, 1973 Year: 1973 Medium: Graphite on Artist's Board Size: 40 x 30.25 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed & ...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite

Moon Shot (NASA official commission—74 x 114 inches), Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1970. Size: 72 x 108 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. Provenance: Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY. Notes: This is one of the resulting lunar paintings from Lowell Nesbitt’s commission as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 13 space mission. In 1969, artist Lowell Nesbitt was invited by NASA to create artwork to commemorate the Apollo 9...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Garden Vision (The Greenhouse), Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Garden Vision (The Greenhouse) Year: 1984-87 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 70 x 70 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Mr. Jefferson’s Garden, Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Mr. Jefferson’s Garden Year: 1986 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 81 x 104 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Shadow Iris, Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Shadow Iris Year: 1982 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 60 x 90 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Linen, Canvas

Frosted Mountain, Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Frosted Mountain Year: 1982 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 78 x 104 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

China, Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: China Year: 1983 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 80 x 110 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, titled by the artist, verso LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral works of art. An artist with a highly personal style, Nesbitt made realistic studies of many themes throughout his career. His most well known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he created using the flower as theme. Since his first show in 1957, Nesbitt has had more than eighty one man shows. His painting, drawings and prints...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Linen, Oil, Canvas

Lowell Nesbitt-Community Holiday Festival-HAND SIGNED
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Limited edition print Lowell Nesbitt created for the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 1978. Hand signed and numbered by Nesbitt in pencil.
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20th Century Contemporary Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Exquisite Rose Drawing (unique) done in graphite, hand signed with provenance
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Untitled Rose, 1983 Graphite on Lanaquarelle Watercolor Paper Signed and dated on the front Framed Unique, poignant, exquisitely rendered graphite drawing on watercolor paper with deckled edges. This work is framed and ready to hang; frame bears Alan Brown Gallery (Hartsdale) label verso. It was acquired from the Estate of Noel Frackman, renowned art historian, scholar, writer, and professor with a lifelong passion for 20th Century Art - and a close personal friend of Lowell Nesbitt. She earned a M.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in English Literature and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. She was an art critic for the Patent Trader Newspaper and the Scarsdale Inquirer, contributing editor for Arts Magazine, author of numerous catalogs including ''John Storrs'', for the Whitney Museum of American Art. For 19 years she was a faculty member at Purchase College, State University of New York. Measurements: Framed: 13 inches by 13 inches x .5 Artwork: approx. 10.5 inches by 10.5 inches Lowell Nesbitt Biography: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and sculptor, was born in Baltimore, Maryland on 4 October 1933. He studied at Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Nesbitt worked in abstraction until Robert Indiana suggested in the early 1960s that he explore realism in his paintings. As subjects for his work he favored studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes, his Rottweiler, the Neo-Classical facades of 19th century cast iron buildings, and Manhattan's bridges. He was also famous for his enormous paintings and prints of roses, lilies, irises, and other flowers. In 1980, the United States Post Office issued...
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1880s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Graphite, Mixed Media

10 Lemons Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Artist Name: Lowell Nesbitt Year: 1979 Medium Type: Screen print, on Arches ar incheschival paper   Size-Width | Size-Height:  24'' x 31½" Signed | Edition Size: Signed in pencil, dated and marked | 132/175 Unframed in Very Good Condition. Experience the mastery of Lowell Nesbitt, an eminent figure in American realism, through his exquisite signed limited edition art silkscreen titled "10 Lemons," created in 1979. Hailing from Baltimore, Nesbitt's artistic journey began in Washington during the late 1950s, where he devoted himself to the art of painting. His works, including paintings, prints, and drawings, have found their place in prestigious public and private collections worldwide. Nesbitt's talent has been showcased in renowned institutions such as the Baltimore Museum of Art...
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1970s Pop Art Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Spotted Leopard and Iris, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Title: Spotted Leopard and Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and num...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Rust Iris 1979 Signed Limited Edition Screen Print
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Rochester Hills, MI
Lowell Nesbitt Rust Iris - 1979 Screen print on Arches archival paper    29'' x 29'' inches Edition: Signed in pencil, dated and marked 151/175 Lowell Nesbitt emerged as one of the ...
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1970s Pop Art Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Untitled (Two Lilies)
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Created as an original screenprint in colors in 1979, Lowell Nesbitt's Untitled (Two Lilies) measures 8 7/8 x 10 in. (22.54 x 25.4 cm), unframed. Hand-signed, dated, and numbered in ...
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20th Century Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Fruit on Romanian Rug IV (100 x 80 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1977-1980. Size: 100 x 80 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his flora...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Yellow and Blue Jumpsuits (57.5 x 100 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1974. Size: 57.5 x 100 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral w...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Orchid, gorgeous signed/n silkscreen by renowned 1970s realist artist
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Orchid, 1979 Silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front Published by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations, Inc., with blind stamp on the front 25 × 25 inches Unframed This work is pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front. About Lowell Nesbitt. Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching. In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead. He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges. Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world. In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9...
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1970s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen, Pencil, Graphite

Lotus (Shar Pei) in the Studio (75 x 90 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1978. Size: 75 x 90 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral work...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Work Clothes On Studio Floor (70 x 90 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1974. Size: 70 x 90 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. Provenance: Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, NY. LO...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Green Oval, Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1962. Size: 48 x 28 inches. Signed, recto; signed, titled, dated on verso. Provenance: A rare early Abstract Expressionist painting by founding Photo...
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1960s Abstract Expressionist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Vegetable Triptych II (100 x 80 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1977-78. Size: 100 x 80 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. Exhibition History: McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX. Provenance: Andrew Crispo Gallery...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Six Robes (75 x 117 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1974. Size: 75 x 117 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. Provenance: Gertrude Kasle Gallery, Detroit, Michigan; Andrew Crispo Gallery...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Vegetable Triptych I (100 x 80 inches), Lowell Nesbitt - Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Original oil painting on canvas, 1977-78. Size: 100 x 80 inches. Signed, titled, dated on verso. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) One of the most celebrated and most noted for his floral ...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Red Rose
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Red Rose, 1985 Silkscreen on wove paper Signed, dated, and numbered AP 9/25 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front 24 × 24 inches Unframed Hand signed,...
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1980s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Community Holiday Festival by Lowell Nesbitt, 1978 (white flower on red)
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
This image was created to commemorate Lincoln Center's Community Holiday Festival in 1978. Each print is signed and numbered from the edition of 144. This print comes directly from the publisher, Lincoln Center Editions...
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1970s Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Studio Wall Clock (unique painting exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery w/labels)
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Studio Wall Clock, 1968 Charcoal on board w/original Corcoran Gallery Exhibition Labels Signed in graphite on the front 27 x 38.75 inches Unframed; accompanied by the ...
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1960s Modern Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Charcoal

Male Nude, Lithograph by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Titles: Male Nude 3 Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Paper Size: 44 x 30 in. (111.76 ...
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1970s Expressionist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Lithograph

Irs
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt Title: Iris Medium: Screenprint Signed: Hand Signed Edition: From the edition of 175 Year: 1978 Measurements: 24" x 31" Note: This piece is sold unframed...
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1970s Contemporary Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

White Irises on Blue, Silkscreen by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Irises on Blue Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 41 x 23...
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1980s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Rose
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Hollywood, FL
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt Title: Rose Medium: Screenprint Signed: Hand Signed Edition: From the edition of 175 Year: 1978 Measurements: 24" x 31" Note: This piece is sold UNFRAMED...
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1970s Contemporary Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Untitled Flower
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Untitled Flower, 1975 Etching on wove paper Hand signed, numbered AP and dated on the front 24 × 19 inches Unframed Poignant and exquisitely rendered etching of a flow...
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1970s Modern Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Etching

"Nocturnal Lotus" oil on canvas, 1981
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Southampton, NY
Lowell Nesbitt's paintings are in most major museum collections. In the 1950s he dabbled in Abstract Expressionism for a short time. However, It wasn’t until 1962, that he created hi...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Three Tulips on Black, Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Three Tulips on Black Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

XI Crocus Hyridus Hort
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
XI Crocus Hyridus Hort Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1993) Date: 1976 Oil on Canvas, signed, titled, and dated verso Size: 50 x 36 in. (127 x 91.44 cm)
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Two Violet Roses 1974, Op Art Floral Oil on Canvas Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Surfside, FL
Lowell Blair Nesbitt is an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Although he worked in a variety of media and covered a wide range of subjects throughout his career, he is best known for his large, Photorealist botanical paintings. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1933, Nesbitt earned a degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Later, he also studied at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Working in stained glass and etching and also producing abstract paintings in his early career, a 1962 encounter with artist Robert Indiana led him to steer his aesthetic toward realism. Though he held his first solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958, it was his 1964 debut at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. that would truly bring him to the attention of the art world. In this exhibit, his botanical series of paintings, drawings, and prints captivated the art world and public alike. The game-changing Corcoran Gallery show would send his career down the trajectory of sustained success. In 1976, Nesbitt moved from his New York City West 14th Street studio to a massive space located at 389 West 12th Street. The 12,500 square foot living and workspace supplied ample room for creating his enormous paintings (the largest was more than 30 feet long), but it also bragged an indoor swimming pool, a four-story atrium, and a rooftop area for entertaining. “The Old Stable,” as Nesbitt came to call it, soon became a popular hangout for celebrities, dignitaries, and other art world heavy hitters. Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Indiana, Jasper Johns, Robert Motherwell, Larry Rivers, and James Rosenquist were all known to have frequented The Old Stable or to have at least paid a visit. Throughout his long career, Nesbitt was known as an artist who could successfully capture an array of diverse subject matter using a variety of techniques. Creating beyond his signature Photorealistic flowers and botanicals, Nesbitt produced paintings, drawings, and prints of everything from landscapes to reptiles to electronic components. He is even credited as the first artist to use computer parts as artistic subject matter. In 1980, the United States Postal Service honored his contributions to the art world with a series of four stamps based on his trademark floral paintings. Another unique honor arrived when Nesbitt became the official artist for NASA’s Apollo 9 and Apollo 13...
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1970s Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Male Nude
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Titles: Male Nude 2 Year: 1979 Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 17...
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1970s Expressionist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Lithograph

Pink Rose, Realist Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt 1976
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautiful realist painting of a rose by American Artist, Lowell Nesbitt who was great inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, Ameri...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Shadow Iris" Oil on Canvas 24x24" dark grays, violet and plum color tones
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Southampton, NY
Lowell Nesbitt's paintings are in most major museum collections. In the 1950s he dabbled in Abstract Expressionism for a short time. However, It wasn’t until 1962, that he created ...
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1980s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Yellow Lilies on Green, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Yellow Lilies on Green Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 2...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

MOONWALK 1970 Color Silkscreen Screenprint Acrylic Plexiglass Mod Space Art
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Surfside, FL
Space Race Silkscreen on Acrylic hand signed and dated 1970, MOON WALK, color screenprint on Plexiglas depicting the moon landing, from the numbered edition of 150, size 30 x 30” Lowell Blair Nesbitt is an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. Although he worked in a variety of media and covered a wide range of subjects throughout his career, he is best known for his large, Photorealist botanical paintings. Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1933, Nesbitt earned a degree from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Later, he also studied at London’s Royal Academy of Arts. Working in stained glass and etching and also producing abstract paintings in his early career, a 1962 encounter with artist Robert Indiana led him to steer his aesthetic toward realism. Though he held his first solo show at the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1958, it was his 1964 debut at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. that would truly bring him to the attention of the art world. In this exhibit, his botanical series of paintings, drawings, and prints captivated the art world and public alike. The game-changing Corcoran Gallery show would send his career down the trajectory of sustained success. In 1976, Nesbitt moved from his New York City West 14th Street studio to a massive space located at 389 West 12th Street. The 12,500 square foot living and workspace supplied ample room for creating his enormous paintings...
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1970s Pop Art Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Plexiglass, Screen

Lowell Nesbitt 1980 Tulips Lithograph
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lowell Blair Nesbitt: 1933-1993. Well listed American painter and printmaker. He has auction records for paintings over $43,000 and for a print over $3300. This lithograph is of tuli...
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1980s Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Lithograph

Island of Flowers, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Island of Flowers Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 85/200 Image Size: 24 x 40 inches...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Island of Red Flowers
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Island of Red Flowers Year: 1979 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, titled and dated verso Size: 7...
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1970s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil

Lily
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Lily" C.1975 is an original colors serigraph by noted American artist Lowell Nesbitt, 1933-1993. It is hand signed, dated and numbered A.P. 6/30 in pencil by the artist. The image size is 23.75 x 26 inches, sheet size is 29.35 x 31.25 inches. It is in excellent condition, it has a very light printing ink soiling at the left margin, see picture #6 and a light crease at the lower center margin. About the artist: Lowell Nesbitt, who was born in Baltimore on Oct. 4, 1933, was a graduate of the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia and also attended the Royal College of Art in London, where he worked in stained glass & etching. In 1964, the Corcoran Gallery or Art in Washington gave him one of his first museum exhibitions, and by the mid 1970's he had decided to leave the museum a bequest of more than $1 million. But in 1989, he publicly revoked the bequest after the Corcoran canceled a disputed exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, who was an old friend. Mr. Nesbitt named the Phillips Collection as a beneficiary instead. He was frequently grouped with the Photo Realists, but his images were more interpretively distorted, somewhat loosely painted and boldly abbreviated. He had many subjects: studio interiors, articles of clothing, piles of shoes and groupings of fruits and vegetables. He also painted his dog, a Rottweiler named Echo, the Neoclassical facades of SoHo's 19th century cast-iron buildings and several of Manhattan's major bridges. Despite such variety, Lowell Nesbitt was best known for gargantuan images or irises, roses, lilies and other flowers, which he often depicted in close up so that their petals seemed to fill the canvas. Dramatic, implicitly sexual and a little ominous, they earned the artist a popularity with the general public that tended to overshadow his reputation within the art world. In 1980, the United States Postal Service issued four stamps based on Mr. Nesbitt's floral paintings. He also served as the official artist for the space flights of Apollo 9 and Apollo 13. SELECTED CORPORATE COLLECTIONS -Amerada Hess Corporation, New York, New York -AT&T, New York, New York -Atlantic Richfield, Los Angeles, California -Bank of New York, New York, New York -Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France -Celenese Corporation, New York, New York -Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, New York -Citicorp, New York, New York -Florists Trans World Delivery Collection of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan -Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan -General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota -Hess Shoe Corporation, Baltimore, Maryland -Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb, Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York -Maryland National Bank, Baltimore -Mutual of Omaha, Washington D.C. -Neiman-Marcus, Atlanta, Georgia -Northern Trust Company, Chicago, Illinois -J.C. Penny Corporation, New York, New York -Prudential Insurance Company, Newark, New Jersey -Schroeder Bank and Trust Company, New York, New York SELECTED MUSEUM AND GOVERNMENT COLLECTIONS. -American Embassies: Monrovia, Dar es Salaam, Tel Aviv, Sao Paulo -The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois -Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland -Castel Gandolfo, Rome, Collection of Pope Paul II -Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. -Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas -Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan -Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas -Enviromental Protection Agency, Washington D.C. -Federal Reserve Bank, Baltimore, Maryland -Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. -Fort Worth Art Center, Texas -The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia -Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. -International Monetary Fund, Washington D.C. -Israel Museum, Jerusalem -John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida -Library of Congress, Washington D.C. -Loch Haven Art Center, Florida -Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1958: Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD 1971: -Gimpel Fils, London, England -Gimpel and Weitzenhoffer, New York, NY 1972: -Kunstverein, Frieburg, Germany -Galerie Arneson, Copenhagen, Denmark -Gerlerie Aronovitsch, Stockholm, Sweden 1973: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1974: Gimpel Fils, London, England 1975: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 1976: Hayden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1977: Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita KS 1978: Kent State University, Kent, OH 1979: Selby Botanical Gardens, Museum of Botany and the Art's, Sarasota, FL 1980: Marion Koogler Mcnay Art Institute, San Antonio, TX 1981: Editions Inc, Houston TX 1982: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH 1983: Atlantic Center for the Art, New Smyrna Beach, FL 1984: Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK 1989: Tyler Gallery...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Pink Rose, Realist Flower Painting by Lowell Nesbitt 1976
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A beautiful realist painting of a rose by American Artist, Lowell Nesbitt who was great inspired by Georgia O'Keeffe. Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Pin...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Lowell Nesbitt, "Tulipa Hybrida, " Photorealist Painting, 1976
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
This painting was created by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt. His most well-known series, and perhaps his most beautiful and poetic, are the more than four hundred works he crea...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Yellow Rose, Photorealist Print by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Yellow Rose Year: 1982 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Si...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Iris
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Lowell Nesbitt Iris, 1974 Aquatint, edition of 50 42 x 30 in. Lowell Nesbitt was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1933. Nesbitt’s prints, paintings, and sculptures incorporate imagery...
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1970s Abstract Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Aquatint

Vegetables, Photorealist Painting by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Vegetables Year: 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76....
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil, Canvas

Multicolor Iris
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Multicolor Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 35/40 Size: 36 x 25 in. (9...
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1970s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

White Iris on Black, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Iris on Black Year: 1982 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 40 Image Size: 31.5 x 25 inch...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Lowell Nesbitt, Three Irises on Yellow, Screenprint
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Three Irises on Yellow Year: 1980 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 15.25 x 36 in...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Lowell Nesbitt, Fruits on Rug I, Screenprint
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Fruits on Rug I Year: 1978 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 175 Image Size: 26.5 x 30 inches Siz...
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1970s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

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