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John Ward Lockwood, Victorian Bouquet, Pastel on Paper, 14" x 21"

Biography John Ward Lockwood

John Ward Lockwood was born in Atchison, Kansas in 1894. Studying at Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, Lockwood developed a talent for several forms of modernist painting. Moving to Taos in 1926, John Ward Lockwood, along with his friends Kenneth Adams, John Marin and Andrew Dasburg, began to take the painting of the region in a more modernist direction. Lockwood himself painted in Cubist, Expressionist, Surrealist and Constructivist style while in Taos, and his pieces often have little in common with each other. Te majority of his pieces are watercolors.

Though John Ward Lockwood’s career is primarily defined by the work he did while in Taos, he painted and taught for a variety of corporations and universities. He did work for the WPA and the Federal Arts Project before accepting teaching positions at, in chronological order, Broadmoor Academy in Colorado Springs, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California- Berkeley. John Ward Lockwood also exhibited with the abstract-expressionist painters of the San Francisco Art Association. In 1963 John Ward Lockwood moved back to Taos and died the following year.

John Ward Lockwood, Pueblo Dancers, Watercolor Collage, Circa late 1920, early 1930, 20" x 27"

Museum Collections

Addison Gallery of American Art 

Amon Carter Museum 

California Palace-Legion of Honor 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Dallas Museum of Art 

Delaware Art Museum 

Denver Art Museum 

Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art 

Henry Art Gallery 

Jack S Blanton Museum of Art 

Jonson Gallery of University of New Mexico 

Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Museum of New Mexico 

National Academy of Design Museum 

Oakland Museum of California 

Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum 

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 

Phoenix Art Museum 

Roswell Museum and Art Center 

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 

Santa Barbara Museum of Art 

Smithsonian American Art Museum 

Spencer Museum of Art 

The Baltimore Museum of Art 

The de Young Museum 

The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 

The Harwood Museum of Art 

The Metropolitan Museum of Art 

The Museum of Modern Art 

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 

The Phillips Collection 

University of California Berkeley Art Museum 

Whitney Museum of American Art

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