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Lowell Nesbitt Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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
Nude Series (Male Nude in Desert with Cacti), Lowell Nesbitt - Drawing
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Nude Series (Male Nude in Desert with Cacti) Year: 1989 Medium: Colored pencil on Arches paper Size: 50.25 x 35.5 inches Inscription: Signed...
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1990s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Color Pencil

Impossible Series (Niagara Falls), Lowell Nesbitt - Drawing
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Impossible Series (Niagara Falls) Year: 1990 Medium: Graphite on Arches paper Size: 50.25 x 35.5 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the ar...
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1990s Realist Lowell Nesbitt Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite

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 Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

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Graphite, Mixed Media

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