Title: |
Shoes XII |
Artist: |
Nesbitt, Lowell Blair 'Lowell Nesbitt' (Baltimore Maryland, 1933 - New York, 1993) |
Date: |
1974 |
Medium: |
Original Drypoint Engraving |
Note: |
Lowell Blair Nesbitt 'Lowell Nesbitt': A major modern American artist,
Lowell Blair Nesbitt is highly regarded for his original etchings, engravings,
paintings and sculpture. His artistic education was received from the
Tyler School of Fine Arts, Baltimore, Temple University, Philadelphia,
and the Royal College of Art, London, England. Since his graduation, Lowell Nesbitt
has also taught at the Baltimore Museum of Art, the University of Miami,
the University of Richmond and at the New York School of Visual Arts. |
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Since his first one-man show in 1958, Lowell Nesbitt has frequently
exhibited his art at major venues throughout the world. Institutions that
presently possess his paintings and prints in their permanent collections
include, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery and the Library
of Congress, Washington, DC., the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the
Art Institute of Chicago, Yale University Art Gallery, the Philadelphia
Museum and the National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA). Nesbitt's
work is also found in public international collections in Aachen, Germany,
Wellington, New Zealand, Goteborg, Sweden, and in Brussels, Copenhagen
and Tel Aviv. |
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Lowell Blair Nesbitt first experimented with original printmaking
in the mid 1960's. His graphic work now includes slightly under one hundred
original prints; most in the medium of drypoint engraving. Shoes XII is
one of his largest and most impressive drypoints where the contrasts of
light and dark are fully explored. Most of Lowell Nesbitt's drypoints (including
this original example) exist in very small editions. |
Edition: |
Limited edition of fourteen impressions, numbered (2/14) |
Size: |
19 1/2 X 28 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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Matted with 100% Archival Materials |
Condition: |
Printed upon thick, pure rag paper and with full deckled
margins as published in New York in 1974. Signed, dated and numbered '2/14'
by the artist along the lower margin. It is a superb, velvety impression
and in excellent condition throughout. Shoes XII represents a fine,
original example of the engraved art of Lowell Blair Nesbitt. |
Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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