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AskART.com presents a biographical sketch of American artist Lockwood De Forest (1850-1932). Additional information for De Forest includes a bibliography of publications about the artist, museum holdings, current exhibits, images of the artist's work, etc. Auction records, including highest prices, are available only to AskART members.
"This is the first scholarly book on de Forest. It explores his career in the decorative arts by examining cultural context, material culture, biography, and patronage. Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) is best known as an artistic decorator with a flair for designs based on the arts and crafts of the Middle East and India. He began his career in partnership with Louis Comfort Tiffany. By 1883, de Forest had his own business and successfully introduced the East Indian craft revival to the United States. His interior designs and furnishings were embraced by some of the wealthiest families of the Gilded Age. His family home at 7 East Tenth Street in New York City served as a designer showcase and was compared to Arab Hall, a pinnacle of exotic design that was part of Frederic, Lord Leighton's home and studio in Holland Park, London. Complemented by sixty color plates and 132 black-and-white illustrations." --Publisher description.
Featuring color plates of over fifty plein air landscape paintings by de Forest created on a single trip across the Middle East in late 1875 to mid 1876. Retracing the steps of his mentor, Frederic Church, de Forest traveled through Egypt, Syria, Palestine, Israel, and Greece. Letters recounting his journey are transcribed here for the first time.
"This book was issued to commemorate the historic discovery of three lost caches of sublime landscape paintings of Santa Barbara and its environs by one of America's lost artistic geniuses of the ninetheenth century, Lockwood de Forest. With rare sensitivity and unflagging discipline, de Forest learned to record the light, the atmosphere and the contours of land and sea across an astonishing area of Earth. In 1902, he began wintering in Santa Barbara. In 1915, he moved there permanently. These are his paintings. They are back in Santa Barbara again after almost a hundred years."--Jacket.
"This book was issued to commemorate an exhibition of 80 plein air paintings by Lockwood de Forest at Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery in January of 2011. Entitled 40 Days & 40 Nights : Eigh[t]y Paintings by Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932), the exhibition sought to present a more complete picture of the seductive and enigmatic output (of) one of America's lost artistic geniuses of the nineteenth century, Lockwood de Forest. With rare sensitivity and an unflagging discipline, de Forest learned to record the dim light and rich atmosphere available in the dark of night. From his first 'moonlight' in 1874 to his last in 1924, de Forest's devotion to nocturnal painting neatly bookends a Western cultural fascination with the Romantic connotations of the night. This exhibition provided collectors with a rare opportunity to see the largest de Forest exhibition in almost a century."--Jacket.
Between 1843 and 1922, American artists travelled to the Near East and North Africa, painting all that they discovered. Edwin Lord Weeks and Frederick Bridgman are amongst the most famous but there was also Francis Bacon, Samuel Colman, Swain Gifford and