Background
Lockman, Dewitt Mcclellan was born on July 30, 1870 in Brooklyn. Son of Jacob K. and Mary Taintor (Abbe) Lockman.
Lockman, Dewitt Mcclellan was born on July 30, 1870 in Brooklyn. Son of Jacob K. and Mary Taintor (Abbe) Lockman.
Pupil of James H. Beard, North. A., Nelson North. Bickford and William Sartain. Studied in Europe, 1891-1892, 1901-1902.
Represented in permanent collections of National Academy of Design, Yale, Phillips Exeter Academy, Society of Cincinnati (Washington), Art Commission City New York, Fort Ticonderoga (New York) Museum, New York History Society, Pennsylvania Academy Fine Arts, West Point Military Academy, Mount Vernon (New York) City Hall, Washington and Jefferson College, Metropolitan Museum New York, numerous other public private collections.
Served in Office of Naval Intelligence, 3d Naval District, 1917-1918. Member Art Commission, New York City, 1925-1929. Member board control Artists Fund Society, 1917-1920.
Trustee School Art League New York City (member board 1928-1939).
Member National Association Portrait Painters (council 1923-1926, chairman), Allied Artists American, Incorporated. (president 1945-1946, trustee, since 1946), Municipal Art Society (chairman on painting), National Institute Arts and Letters, Fine Arts Federation New York, American Artists Professional League (member of national Executive Committee 1933), American Fine Arts Society (life), Art Commission Associate (president 1948, 49), New York History Society (member art committee.
Clubs: Century, Ends of the Earth, Brook, Lotos.
Married Evelyn Clair Walker, February 18, 1946.