Jackson Lee Nesbitt (born 1913) was an American artist. Year 1913 ( MCMXIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Nesbitt was born in McAlester, Oklahoma and studied at the Kansas City Art Institute off and on from 1933 to 1941, working primarily with famed Regionalist painter Thomas Hart Benton and printmaker John de Martelly. McAlester is a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, United States. The Kansas City Art Institute (KCAI is a private independent four-year college of Fine arts and Design founded in 1885 that has taught many creative students including Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Thomas Hart Benton ( April 15, 1889 - January 19, 1975) was an American painter and Muralist. John Stockton de Martelly (1903-1979 was a lithographer etcher painter illustrator teacher and writer Though they were very different in age, Nesbitt and Benton were also friends who traveled and sketched together often -- and the art they created was very similar. When financial necessity (in large part caused by the popularity of modernist art) forced Nesbitt to give up his art for a successful career in the advertising industry to provide for his family, Nesbitt did not speak with Benton for many years out of embarrassment. Nevertheless, Benton, and his wife Rita, always considered Nesbitt to be one of his finest students.
Sources
- Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton. Marianne Berardi. The Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. 1993
- The Artists Bluebook. Lonnie Pierson Dunbar, editor. March 2005.
- Davenport's Art Reference. Ray Davenport. 2005.
- Who Was Who in American Art. Peter Hastings Falk (editor). 1999
- Kansas City Regional Art. Associated American Artists. New York. 1940
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