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Owl with Jewels '85, Lowell Nesbitt

1985

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About the Item

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933–1993) Title: Owl with Jewels '85 Year: 1985 Medium: Oil on linen Size: 20 x 20 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed, dated, and titled by the artist, verso Provenance: Estate of Lowell Blair Nesbitt, New York, New York LOWELL BLAIR NESBITT (1933–1993) was an American painter whose radical rethinking of realism, monumental sense of scale, and uncompromising engagement with modern subject matter positioned him as one of the most intellectually forceful and visually distinctive figures of postwar American art, emerging in New York in the early 1960s and rejecting the notion that realism was conservative or secondary to abstraction by transforming ordinary motifs such as flowers, skulls, industrial machinery, tools, architectural fragments, X rays, and scientific imagery into commanding, psychologically charged compositions whose exaggerated scale and tactile surfaces confront the viewer with an almost sculptural presence; deeply informed by the formal and conceptual breakthroughs of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, Nesbitt synthesized lessons from Cubism, Surrealism, abstraction, and conceptual art while maintaining a fiercely independent visual language grounded in observation, material density, and perceptual intensity; he moved within influential artistic circles that included Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Alex Katz, yet deliberately resisted alignment with Pop or Photorealism as fixed categories, instead asserting that realism itself could be experimental, confrontational, and philosophically ambitious; by isolating and enlarging everyday objects to monumental proportions, Nesbitt challenged traditional hierarchies of subject matter and forced a reconsideration of what constituted significance, beauty, and meaning in contemporary life; his fearless approach to scale, surface, and conceptual realism has exerted a lasting influence on later figurative, Pop-adjacent, and contemporary realist painters who continue to explore realism as a vehicle for intellectual inquiry rather than mere description; widely exhibited and collected, his work remains a touchstone for artists and scholars interested in the intersection of realism and modernism, confirming his lasting relevance within the canon of postwar American art.
  • Creator:
    Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993, American)
  • Creation Year:
    1985
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 20 in (50.8 cm)Width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
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  • Condition:
  • Gallery Location:
    Fairfield, CT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU1342118369282

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