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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
Island of Flowers, Photorealist 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

Bluebird, Photorealist Floral Lithograph by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Bluebird Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, Signed and Numbered in Pencil Edition: AP 5/25 Image Size: 27.5 x 35.5 inches Fram...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Lithograph

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 Abstract Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

White Iris on Blue II, Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
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. (...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Three Irises on Yellow, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
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

Burgundy Iris, Silkscreen by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Burgundy Iris Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30 x 20 inches Size: 36...
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1980s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Iris on Silver - Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Iris on Silver Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 22.5 in. diameter Size...
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1980s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Three Irises, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
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 ...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Multiflower, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Multiflower Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 23 x 23 inches Size: 30 i...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Still Life with Grapes, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A silkscreen print by Lowell Nesbitt from 1975. A colorful still life that combines both organic and geometric elements. Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Still Life with...
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1970s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

White Iris on Purple, 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 Purple Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 35 x 24 inches S...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

White and Violet Iris, Floral Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White and Violet Iris Year: 1982 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 40 Image Size: 30 x 2...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Animas Valley, Colorado I, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Lilium, Silkscreen by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Lilium Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 30 x 39 inches Size: 37 x 45 i...
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1980s 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

White Lily, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Parrot Tulip III, Photorealist Floral Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Parrot Tulip III Year: 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Imag...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

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

Red Rose from the Stamps series, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Red Rose from the Stamps Series Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Image Size: 20 x ...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Three Flowers on Blue, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

The Stream, Oil on Canvas Painting by Lowell Nesbitt, 1982
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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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Canvas, Oil

Rose Monochrome, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Rose Monochrome Year: circa 1980 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 27 x 27 inches ...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Red Spotted Lily from the Stamps series, Photorealist Print by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Red Spotted Lily from the Stamps Series Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 250 Image Siz...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Yellow and Blue Iris, Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Yellow and Blue Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 40 Image Size: 24 inches...
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1980s Photorealist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

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

Bird of Paradise (Orange) abstract
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in New York, NY
Edition of 40 Signed and numbered unframed
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1980s Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Red Rose on Carpet, Photorealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
A photorealistic red rose set against a backdrop that resembles a carpet or a cross-stitch pattern. This large oil on canvas painting is nicely set into a gold frame with thin white ...
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1980s 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

Red Rose, Photorealist Screenprint by Lowell Nesbitt
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
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...
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1980s American Realist Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Screen

Electric Tulip II
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Electric Tulip II Year: 1980 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 84 x 60 in....
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1970s Op Art Lowell Nesbitt Art

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Oil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Lowell Nesbitt art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of purple, red, blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Lowell Nesbitt in screen print, oil paint, paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the Photorealist style. Not every interior allows for large Lowell Nesbitt art, so small editions measuring 10 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Robert Cottingham, Jeanette Pasin-Sloan, and Ralph Goings. Lowell Nesbitt art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $245 and tops out at $125,000, while the average work can sell for $850.

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