Thomas locker biography

          Thomas Locker (June 26, — March 9, ) was an..

          Thomas Locker, American ( - ).

        1. Thomas Locker was an American landscape painter and award winning illustrator, and author of children's literature His oil paintings follow in the tradition of the 19th-century Hudson River School of painting.
        2. Thomas Locker (June 26, — March 9, ) was an.
        3. Thomas Locker (−) was one of the major American painters of the past century.
        4. Thomas Locker was born in New York City in In the s, he began his career as a landscape painter.

          5. Thomas Locker

          American painter

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

          Born in New York City, Thomas Locker was raised in Washington D.C.

          where his father worked as a lobbyist. At age six he started training in traditional old-world techniques with painter Umberto Roberto Romano .[4] At age seven, Locker won first prize in the children's division of the Washington Times-Herald annual[5][circular reference] art fair.

          Locker earned an A.B. in Art History at the University of Chicago and an M.A. from the American University, Washington DC.[4] While at the University of Chicago he studied under professor Joshua C. Taylor [1], future director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

          After graduating, h