ANTIQUE WESTERN COWBOY DOG HORSE ETCHING NESBITT

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Signed in pencil lower left "November Evening", 1946 edition of 250, published by Associated American Artists, signed lower right in pencil "Jackson Lee Nesbitt", etching on wove paper, strong image. Measures approximately 8 ¾ x 11 5/8 inches. Framed piece behind glass is approximately 17 x 18 ¾ inches. Thanks for looking. Jackson Lee Nesbitt (June 16, 1913 – February 20 2008) was an American artist. 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. 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: Jackson Lee Nesbitt: The Graphic Work. Earl Retif and Ann Salzer. Stone And Press Galleries. 1993 Under the Influence: The Students of Thomas Hart Benton. Marianne Berardi. The Albrecht-Kemper read more