Lowell Nesbitt

Bluebird, Photorealist Floral Lithograph by Lowell Nesbitt

1981

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Iris on Blue III Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint , signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200 Image Size: 24 inches diamete...

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: Multicolor Iris Year: 1981 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 35/40 Size: 36 x 25 in. (9...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: White Irises on Blue Year: 1980 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 200, AP 30 Image Size: 41 x 23...

A limited edition offset print by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a blue jay in his natural environment around morning glory flowers created in an imp...

Original Giclee Print (Edition of 30) by Patricia Traub. Patricia Traub (b. 1947, Allentown, PA) graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the York Academy of the...

In this contemporary painting in gouache on paper, a golden yellow monkey and blue, white and yellow birds are surrounded by brightly colored flowers and a peach urn in a lively gard...

Lowell Nesbitt Orchid, 1979 Silkscreen on wove paper Pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front Published by Charles Cardinale Fine Creations, Inc., with blind stamp on the front 25 × 25 inches Unframed This work is pencil signed, dated and numbered 144/175 by Lowell Nesbitt on the front. About Lowell Nesbitt. 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...