1933-1993 - Lowell Nesbitt was born in Baltimore, Maryland on October, 1933. He started to paint seriously in Washington D.C., during the late 50's and continued to paint and make prints until his death in 1993 at age 59. The photographic sources of Nesbitt's work have assumed less importance and his style has become almost romantic. He depends much less upon photographs than do other artists who use this source. Unlike younger Photo-Realist painters, Nesbitt has always eschewed car lots, drive-ins, and other neo-Pop subject matter, preferring Instead less time-bound, less sociological images; images that confront traditional realism as well as the viewers expectations. Nesbitt has successfully tackled many subjects: landscapes, nudes, ruins, caverns, and flowers. Nesbitt, who has been painting giant flowers since 1964, removes their usual context of devastating sentimentality so that their peculiar beauty is again visible. Through such devices as close-up scale and extreme isolation, Nesbitt forces us to break with sentimentalities. The flowers are removed from three-dimensional space and from traditional social contexts. The flowers existed long before their execution as carefully pre-planned work/study collages that stand as the ignition keys to his creativity. Lowell Nesbitt exhibited frequently in both the United States and Europe and is represented in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Nesbitt has emerged as one of the most important American Realists. He has also attained an enviable international reputation as an artist with a personal vision, brilliant technical skill, and a viewpoint that is wholly contemporary.