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| Lockwood de Forest Jr.'s archives relating to his landscape architecture are kept at the University of California at Berkeley: all of his architectural drawing and presentation materials can be found there. At Sullivan Goss, Ltd. we have a small number of his completed paintings. There are no known exhibition-scale paintings by the artist. |
| Lockwood de Forest, Jr.'s paintings are in a number of private collections and in the collection of the Santa Barbara Island Foundation. The painting to the left, Mountain and Meadow, is in the Sullivan Goss permanent collection. |  |
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| All of the extant canvases by Lockwood de Forest, Jr. are 8" x 10." They are, for the most part, clearly signed and dated in one of the lower corners of the canvas. Over the years Sullivan Goss, Ltd. has handled ten or twelve of these small paintings. The influence for the scale of these small canvases was the artist's father Lockwood de Forest, Sr., who painted approximately two thousand small painted "sketches." All of Lockwood de Forest, Jr.'s paintings were done on canvas. Most of these sketches are on canvas laid down on board, while some are on traditionally stretched canvas and some are on prepared artists' board with the canvas stretched over a dense grey cardboard, as is available today. Lockwood de Forest, Jr.'s father rarely used anything except a prepared artist board which is a thick card-stock with a neutral gesso on the "paint" side. All of the known "Jr." paintings appear to be done "en plein aire," that is begun and completed out-of-doors, in the open air - as opposed to studio paintings. The young artist always signed in an india ink using the contraction "LdeF Jr." The few works surviving are remarkabely consistent and of good quality. The one painting which has survived with its original frame is in the Sullivan Goss private collection; the frame is approximately one inch thick and deep, and is stained jet black. It is surmised that "Jr." did not appreciate being a painter in the shadow of his father's work, and consequently decided to devote his life to creating landscapes instead of painting them.
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| David Streatfield, Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Washington, is currently working on a major monograph devoted to Lockwood de Forest, Jr.'s contributions to landscape architecture in Southern California. Click Here For Dr. Streatfield's web page.
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| The signature of Lockwood de Forest, Jr. did not vary much from one painting to the next. The image to the right is enlarged here, but is typical of that on all of his known canvases. |  |
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