Lowell Nesbitt
Acting
Biography
Lowell Blair Nesbitt (October 4, 1933 – July 8, 1993) was an American painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor. He served as the official artist for the NASA Apollo 9, and Apollo 13 space missions; in 1976 the United States Navy commissioned him to paint a mural in the administration building on Treasure Island spanning 26 feet x 251 feet, then the largest mural in the United States; and in 1980 the United States Postal Service honored Lowell Nesbitt by issuing four postage stamps depicting his paintings.
Known For
A black-and-white travel journal, in which the themes of memories and their relationship to the past suddenly catch up and rush away from us. The film is based on a series of portraits of American artists, all of whom belong to a young and politicized generation, presented in static tableaus from their studios, films and home environments.
Travelogue: Portraits – Images from a journey
A documentary film depicting Lowell Nesbitt, his assistant Milton Dean, and artist Barbara Farrell, showing aspects of the work on the mobile. The Artmobile was a changing exhibition space on wheels, operated by the Miami-Dade Public Library System (MDPLS), by Fine Arts Librarians Margarita Cano and Barbara Young. It traveled around Miami-Dade County from the 1970s through the early '90s. The Artmobile was donated by Southeast Bank and painted with vibrating zebra stripes and purple flowers by Nesbitt in 1976 and again in July 1987.