Lupine: Monterey Coast, ca. 1920

Lockwood de Forest (American, 1850-1932)

Oil on canvas

Gift of Joan Chapin Robertson in Memory of Rear Admiral and Mrs. Nealy A. Chapin

Print measures 11 x 14 inches.

Artist, author, designer, inventor, world traveler, Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) was truly a man of many facets. Born inot a prosperous and socially connected New York City family, he evidenced artistic talent at an early age. As a young man he studies in Rome and then came under the tutelage of the famed Hudson River School landscapist, Frederic Church. A prodigious traveler, de Forest eventually settled in Santa Barbara in 1919 where he lived out the rest of his life.