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Lockwood de Forest(1850-1932)Point del Pinos, Monterey, California
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Jewel Bernier
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Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932)
signed and indistinctly dated 'L de Forest / [...]' (lower right); identified on a handwritten label and on a member's label from the National Academy of Design (affixed to the stretcher)
oil on canvas
34 x 48 1/4 in. (86.4 x 122.6 cm)
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Provenance
By descent in the family of the artist.
N.B.
Lockwood de Forest was born in New York City to a family that encouraged engagement with the arts. (Lockwood's brother, Robert Weeks de Forest, succeeded J.P. Morgan as president of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1913; his sister, Julia Brasher, wrote art historical books; and his brother, Henry Wheeler de Forest, became a landscape architect and art collector.) Lockwood began his formal art training during a trip to Rome in the 1860s, at which time he met and began studying under Frederic Edwin Church. Upon his return to New York in 1872, de Forest opened his own studio space and became close with fellow artists Sanford Robinson Gifford, John Frederick Kensett, and Jervis McEntee.
Lockwood soon became more involved with the American Aesthetic Movement, incorporating into his art the principles and aesthetics particularly of Indian, North African, and Middle Eastern design, textiles, and architecture. In 1879 he joined the short-lived but highly influential Associated Artists design firm alongside Louis Comfort Tiffany and Samuel Colman as the director of architectural woodwork. This same year, while on his first trip to India, he started the Ahmedabad Woodcarving Company with Mugganbhai Hutheesing. The ownership of this company would eventually be transferred to Tiffany in 1908. Lockwood opened his own design business in 1882 and designed architectural elements, interiors, and ornamentation for clients like Andrew Carnegie, Mark Twain, and Charles Tyson Yerkes.
Lockwood maintained his interest in painting throughout his career, and with the decline of the Aesthetic Movement in the early 20th century he shifted primarily to painting, producing a prolific number of sketches and oil landscapes of the California, Maine, and Massachusetts coasts.
























