Lowell Nesbitt

Tiger Lily, Photorealist Screenprint on Paper by Lowell Nesbitt

1978

Photorealist flower screenprint by American artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt, signed and numbered in pencil. Red Spotted Lily from the Stamp Series Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933–1...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Peach Lily on Beige Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 40 x 29 inches Si...

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...

This artwork titled "Lily" c.1990, is a watercolor on paper by noted Canadian/Japanese artist Suezan Aikins, b.1952. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (image) size is 10 x 28 inches, framed size is 17.25 x 35.25 inches. Custom framed in a silver metal frame, with double off white matting. It is in excellent condition, the frame have some small minor rubs. About the artist: Born in Montreal in 1952, Suezan was influenced early in her life by the works of modern Japanese woodblock printmakers which hung throughout her parents’ home. She attended the Fine Arts programme at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick (1969 - 1971), The Ontario College of Art (1971-73), L’ ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts (1974), Nova Scotia College of Art and Design -BFA (1975) as well as a very intensive year of study with Toshi Yoshida in Tokyo (1984-85). She has exhibited extensively in both public and private galleries throughout North America and Japan. Recent exhibitions include solo shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Okinawa, and Boston with group exhibitions at the Wenniger Gallery, Boston, Royal Canadian Academy in Toronto and the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa. Her paintings and woodblock prints are found in many collections such as The Canada Council Art Bank, The Nickle Art Museum, The Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, The Royal Bank of Canada, Prince Takamanonamiya Norihito, the Embassy of Canada in Tokyo, The Thomas Moore Institute as well as private collections. Suezan Aikins was awarded the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant in 1983, Nova Scotia Department of Culture - Development Grants in 1980, 1987 and 1988. She was elected to the Royal Canadian Academy of Art in 1990 and received the Canadian Progress Club- Women of Excellence Award for Culture in 1993. Her work has been featured in a number of television documentaries as well as many Canadian magazines. STUDIES: Yoshida Woodblock Print Studio Tokyo, 84-85 Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, 74-75 BFA Ecole du Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal, 74 Ontario College of Art, Toronto, 71-73 Mt. Allison University, 69-72 SELECTED SOLO SHOWS: 25 Year Retrospective of Woodblock Prints traveled to three Public Galleries in Germany: Dornum Castle; Tollhousverein, Leer; Rastede Palace, Oldenberg 2000-2001 color catalog and reviews. Private Exhibitions, Falmouth, Mass., July 1996; Montreal, November 1996; Gibson Island, Md., April 1999. Gold Paintings and Woodblock Retrospective, travelling: Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo; Genkan Gallery, Tokyo American Club; Blue Nile Gallery, Osaka; Kanda's Gallery BOQ, Okinawa; May 1994 (color catalogue) Edo Gallery, Boston, November 1992, Private Exhibitions, Chatham, Mass, July 1992, Toronto, Oct. 1991 New Paintings and Woodblocks Kabutoya Gallery, Tokyo, May 1991, and also in 1987. Japanese Garden and Pavilion Foundation, Montreal, September 1990, Ownens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University 1988 Zwickers Gallery, Halifax, NS, 1979; Gallery 78; Fredericton, November, 1983; Robertson Galleries, Ottawa, November, 1982 SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: "A New Leaf" 30 foot instalation of mixed media/ goldleaf reliefs, Artsplace, Annapolis Royal, N.S., 2000 color catalog "Far and Wide" Juried Bienials, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia; 1996 to '99, travelling, catalogs "Moku Hanga Travelling Exhibition: Contemporary Japanese Woodcuts...