Born in Baltimore in 1933, Lowell Nesbitt attended the Tyler School of Fine Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. He later took classes in stained glass and etching at the Royal College of Art in London. An expert printmaker, Mr. Nesbitt has taught his techniques at Towson State College and the Baltimore Museum of Art.

Nesbitt has been proclaimed a master of photorealism by the art critics. A hallmark of the artist is his interest in selecting a subject and then creating a series. For example, his flower series now numbers over 400 works. Other series include nudes, outer space, caverns, robes, easels, fruits, bulbs and books.

He has had numerous one-man shows at major galleries in Europe and the United States. Museum collections in the United States include the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; National Collection of Fine Arts and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Overseas, the artist's works are in the collections of the National Art Gallery, New Zealand; Kunstverein, Sweden and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.