Heartland Memories:Prints of Jackson Lee Nesbitt

Tuesday, 30 August 2005 11:43

AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.-The Morris Museum of Art presents Heartland Memories: The Prints of Jackson Lee Nesbitt. This exhibition examines the length of printmaker Jackson Lee Nesbitt's career. It includes the first etching he produced as a professional artist in 1935 as well as the last, in 1993. Nesbitt's mentors included Thomas Hart Benton, one of the leading artists in the regionalist movement, characterized by realistic depictions of everyday scenes from the American Midwest and Deep South. Nesbitt created numerous prints commissioned by steel, manufacturing, and oil companies in addition to his many genre etchings. These works followed in the regionalist tradition, illustrating everyday life among the working class in middle America. After interest in regionalism waned in the mid-1950s, Nesbitt gave up printmaking for the advertising business. However, after he retired in the late 1980s and his earlier prints had been rediscovered, Nesbitt returned to printmaking in collaboration with Rolling Stone Press, the Atlanta lithography studio.

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