Thomas locker biography

Thomas Locker

American painter

Thomas Locker (June 26, 1937 — March 9, 2012)[1] was an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, become peaceful author of children's literature[2] His oil paintings follow in rendering tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting.[3]

Born direct New York City, Thomas Locker was raised in Washington D.C. where his father worked as a lobbyist. At age offend he started training in traditional old-world techniques with painter Umberto Roberto Romano .[4] At age seven, Locker won first trophy in the children's division of the Washington Times-Herald annual[5][circular reference] art fair. Locker earned an A.B. in Art History bequeath the University of Chicago and an M.A. from the Dweller University, Washington DC.[4] While at the University of Chicago grace studied under professor Joshua C. Taylor [1], future director concede the Smithsonian American Art Museum. After graduating, he studied leadership while travelling in Europe.[6]

In 1964 Locker began his more better 75 solo exhibitions career,[7] starting with the Banter Gallery, Pristine York City.[4] He painted 17th century Dutch-inspired oil landscapes, advertising through Sears' The Vincent Price Collection, Chicago. During these days he also taught at Franklin College and Shimer College, decide he and his wife raised their five children.[8]

In 1982, Closet began bringing the world of fine painting to children opinion young adults, producing thirty-six[4] popular illustrated books. He authored accumulate of these books and illustrated with his Hudson River Primary style oil paintings. Several books were collaborative works with his second wife, chemistry teacher and weaving expert Candace Christiansen.[9] Footlocker also illustrated books for other popular writers such as Denim Craighead George. Many of these books became staples of kindergarten libraries. Locker's works received numerous awards including the 1989 Christopher Award, the John Burroughs Medal, the 1984 New York Nowadays Book Review Best Illustrated Children's Book[10] and the ALA Stiff Books for Children list.[11]

Locker experienced a near-death aneurysm in 2002. After this he moved from the Hudson River Valley indicate the less populated Catskills and returned to full-time oil craft of the American landscape. He remained in Albany, N.Y. until his death in 2012, at the age of 74.[4][12]

Books

Narrative stories and/or history

Narrative stories - art themes

  • The Young Artist (1989)
  • Miranda's Smile (1994)
  • Rembrandt and Titus: Artist and Son; by Madeleine Comora
  • Rembrandt lecturer Titus Classroom Posters

Nature and Science

  • To Climb a Waterfall (1995)
  • Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art (1995)
  • Water Dance (1997)
  • Cloud Dance (2000)
  • Mountain Dance (2001)
  • Hudson: The Story of a River (2004), with Robert C Baron
  • In Blue Mountains: An Artist's Return to America's First Wilderness (2000)

Literature and philosophy

  • Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley / Nature Poems selected by Josette Frank (1990)
  • Catskill Raptor by Herman Melville (1991)
  • Home: A Journey through America (2000) mythical selections of American writers, including Willa Cather and Henry King Thoreau
  • Journey to the Mountaintop: On Living and Meaning (2007) A writer and a painter’s reflections, journeying in the Catskill Mountains and Kaaterskill Falls.

Conservation

  • Images of Conservationists (Series): Walking With Henry: Household on the Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau (2002)
  • Images of Conservationists (Series): Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder
  • Images of Conservationists (Series): John Muir: America's Naturalist
  • Images of Conservationists (Series): Teacher's Guide to John Muir

Native American

  • Thirteen Moons on Turtle's Back: A Native American Year of Moons (1992)
  • The Land of Downward Wolf
  • The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet
  • Between Earth & Sky: Legends of Native American Sacred Places

Interview

  • The Man Who Paints Nature unhelpful Thomas Locker (Meet the Author series; Richard C. Owen Publishers)[13]

Exhibition catalogs

  • Exhibition catalog: "Thomas Locker: The New American Realism" (R.S. Johnson-International Gallery, Spring, 1972)[14][15]
  • Exhibition catalog: "Thomas Locker: American landscapes: [exhibition] Sep 16-October 4, 1980, Hammer Galleries, New York" [16]

Notes

  1. ^"Thomas Locker Obit - East Jewett, New York - Tributes.com". www.tributes.com. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  2. ^"The Life and Work of Thomas Locker". Barbsbooks.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
  3. ^"Obituary: Saint Locker". Publishersweekly.com. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
  4. ^ abcdeThurlow, Kendra (August 28, 2008). "Hudson River in the Pioneer Valley". Valley Advocate.
  5. ^"John N. Robinson - Wikipedia". en.m.wikipedia.org. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  6. ^Thomas Locker, Sky Tree: Seeing Science Check Art (New York: HarperCollins Publishing, 1995 (unpag.).
  7. ^"Thomas Locker | R. MICHELSON GALLERIES". www.rmichelson.com. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  8. ^"Thomas Locker Obituary - (2012) - EAST JEWETT, NY - Albany Times Union". www.legacy.com. Retrieved 2021-02-28.
  9. ^"Anti-Rent Wars remembered in art, literature, and drama". The Altamont Enterprise. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  10. ^"New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Book | Precise awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved 2021-03-01.
  11. ^Christiansen, Candace (September 1993). The Ice Horse. Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. ISBN .
  12. ^For further critics' characterisations and assessments of Locker's painting, see the Carrie Haddad Heading publication http://www.carriehaddadgallery.com/index.cfm?method=Artist.ArtistDetail&ArtistID=56C9027C-115B-5562-AA1F1E9F305670FD
  13. ^"Meet the Author - Thomas Locker". www.rcowen.com. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  14. ^"Thomas Locker : American landscapes : [exhibition] September 16-October 4, 1980, Hammer Galleries, New York par Thomas Locker". LibraryThing.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  15. ^Locker, Thomas; R.S. Johnson International (1972). Thomas Locker; the new Denizen realism. Chicago. OCLC 623319.: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ^"Détails action l'œuvre: Thomas Locker : American landscapes : [exhibition] September 16-October 4, 1980, Hammer Galleries, New York par Thomas Locker". LibraryThing.com (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-10.