American Realist Art

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...

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...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Three Tulips on Black Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Animas Valley, Colorado I Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30 x 30 inc...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Yellow Lilies on Green Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 2...

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...

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...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Yellow Rose Year: 1982 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Si...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Red and Yellow Parrot Tulips Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edit...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Rose Year: 1981 Medium: Silkscreen, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Iris on Purple Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 35 x 24 inches S...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Rose Year: 1971 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 80 x 80 in. (203.2 x 203.2 cm)

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Iris on Blue III Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Si...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Lily on White Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 26 x 26 inches Si...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Flowers on Blue Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 40 Image Size: 30 x 26.25 inc...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Lemon White Lily Year: 1982 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 26 x 26 in. (66.04 x 66.04 cm)

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Red Rose Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30 x...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Lily Year: 1982 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 26 in. x 26 in. (66.04 cm x 66.04 cm)

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Pink and Yellow Irises Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Ten Lemons on Blue Year: 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 65 in. x 90 in. (165.1 cm x 228.6 cm)

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Three Irises Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30 x 30 inches Size: 37 ...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Three Irises on Green Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP 40 Image Size: 20 x 44 inche...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Island of Yellow Flowers Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 32 x 40 inch...

An oil painting by Lowell Nesbitt from 1973. A very large scale, hyper-realist painting of a rose in black background. Artist: Lowell Blair Nesb...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White and Violet Iris Year: 1982 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 40 Image Size: 30 x 24 ...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Multicolor Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Size: 36 x 25 in. (91.44 x 63.5 cm)

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Fruits on Rug I Year: 1978 Medium: Serigraph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: 145/175 Image Size: 26.5 x 30 inches ...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Iris on Blue II Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, HC Size: 32 in. x 26 in. (...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Two Yellow Irises on Sage I Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Two Yellow Irises on Sage II Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Editio...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Pink Monochrome XII Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 20...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Roses Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 40 Image Size: 28 x 20 inches Size: 35 ...