biographie de Lockwood DEFOREST (1850-1932)

Birth place: NYC

Death place: Santa Barbara, CA

Addresses: Santa Barbara, CA

Profession: Landscape painter, architect, writer

Studied: Corrodi, in Rome, 1869; F.E. Church and James M. Hart, NYC; traveled widely in Egypt, Syria, Greece, 1875-78.

Exhibited: NAD, 1872-1900; Brooklyn AA, 1873-79; PAFA, 1884, 1893; Colonial Expo, London, 1886 (medal, for Indian carvings); AIC, 1889, 1894-95; Columbian Expo, Chicago, 1893 (medal); Boston AC, 1894; St. Louis Expo, 1904 (medal).

Member: ANA, 1891; NA, 1898; Artists Fund Soc.; Artists Aid Soc.; Arch. Lg.; NY Soc. C.; Boston SAC; Century Assn.; NAC; AFA.

Work: Smith College; Herron AI; Cleveland Mus. Art; MMA; Mus. Brooklyn Inst. Arts & Sciences; BMFA; Cleveland Mus. Art; Field Mus. & AI; Mus. Art, Baltimore; Lahore Mus., Lahore, India; India Mus., South Kensington, London.

Comments: He founded workshops at Ahmedabad, India, in 1881, for the revival of woodcarving. Co-founder, Associated Artists, with Louis C. Tiffany and Candace Wheeler, 1878; later also owning his own decorating business, until 1906. Painted again thereafter, including many studies of New England and Long Island. He devised a tool, allowing the artists to draw accurately in terms of placement and scale. Published: Indian Domestic Architecture, 1885, Illustrations of Design, 1912.

Sources: WW31; Pisano, The Long Island Landscape, n.p.