Oil on linen canvas, 1986. Canvas Size: 30.25 x 22 inches. Excellent condition. Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso. Provenance: Estate of Lowell Nesbitt, New York. LOWELL NESBITT (1933-1993) was an American painter, printmaker, draughtsman, sculptor, and one of the founding artists of the Photorealist movement. Widely regarded as one of the preeminent American artists of the twentieth century, Nesbitt was an artist with a highly personal style. He was known for his wide range of imagery, having been the first artist to incorporate X-Ray imagery into his artwork, the first artist to depict images of computers in his artwork, and having been the official artist for the Apollo 9 and the Apollo 13 NASA space missions. Despite having been a prolific painter of interior scenes, figures, landscape, and wildlife, Nesbitt is best remembered for his often gargantuan, interpretively distorted floral paintings, four of which were used for images on stamps by the United States Postal Service. Since his first solo exhibition in 1957, Lowell Nesbitt has been the subject of more than one-hundred one-man exhibitions, many of which have been hosted by the most prominent galleries and museums in the world. His artwork is owned by the vast majority of museums in the United States, and is widely held in institutions globally, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institution’s American Art Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, the Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Library of Congress, and the Vatican’s Papal Palace of Castel Gandolfo amongst scores of others.