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Anyone who wants a fast and finely painted introduction to what is going on in the U.S. art world need only pay a call at Manhattan's Stable Gallery this week. On view are nine oils by Lowell Nesbitt, 34, one of the nation's most highly regarded younger painters. His subject matter: the interiors of six studios belonging to other artists. By meticulously representing their working environments, Nesbitt functions as a reporter; in effect, he achieves a visual essay on how the contemporary artist lives, thinks and works...
...Nesbitt shows, artists in 1968 are more likely to litter their workbenches with draftsmen's tools than with paint rags, to trim their walls with Surveyor's lunar photographs than with models of the Venus de Milo. But each artist still reflects his personal style in his habitat. George Sugarman, who creates boldly colored abstract sculptures, works in a spartan loft equipped with power sanders and gluepots. Claes Oldenburg's huge apartment is in a perpetual clutter because, as Nesbitt points out, "Claes likes to have a lot of things around so he can stumble over them...
...Curiously enough, Nesbitt never shows any artist in his studio. Instead, he makes the room evoke its owner. He deliberately included the softness of a paper bag on Nevelson's workbench to emphasize the hardness of the wood blocks next to it, angled his view of Charles Hinman's loft so that its slanting half-opened window and rolls of drawing paper tilted against the wall suggest the dynamic diagonals that characterize the shaped canvases that Hinman produces. By simplifying textures and using a dreamily radiant color scheme, Nesbitt adds his personality to that of the resident. Says...
...does, however, indulge a few personal whims. He likes peanut butter and banana sandwiches with Pepsi or Nesbitt's orange soda to drink. He owns half a dozen cars, including a gold-trimmed Cadillac that has been spray-painted with 40 coats of crushed diamonds. But since that is a bit showy for everyday and is being used by RCA on promotion tours, a black Rolls-Royce does the journeyman work...
...really wanted a serious relationship, Rupert backed and filled, made himself sick and finally fled to the South Seas. He admitted, says Hassall, that "he was, most regrettably, a Victorian at heart." At 27, only a few months before his death, he confessed in a letter to Cathleen Nesbitt, then a struggling young actress, that he was "a cripple, incomplete. . . . I seemed to have missed everything...