Thomas Locker
Encyclopedia
Thomas Locker is an American
author
and painter
. He was born in New York City
in 1937.
Thomas Locker has written many popular illustrated books for children & young adults
. He has also illustrated books for other popular writers such as Jean Craighead George
. He once worked at Camp Catawba
, a summer camp for boys.
United States
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author
Author
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and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
. He was born in New York City
New York City
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in 1937.
Thomas Locker has written many popular illustrated books for children & young adults
Youth
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. He has also illustrated books for other popular writers such as Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George
Jean Craighead George is an American author. She currently lives in Chappaqua, New York.Jean Craighead George has written over one hundred popular books for young adults, including the Newbery Medal and Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis-winning Julie of the Wolves and the Newbery Honor book My Side...
. He once worked at Camp Catawba
Camp Catawba
Camp Catawba was a summer camp for boys near the town of Blowing Rock in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. It was established in 1944 by Vera Lachmann , a poet, classicist and educator who emigrated from Germany in 1939. In 1947 she was joined by the composer Tui St. George Tucker , who...
, a summer camp for boys.
Partial list of books
- Water Dance
- Sky Tree: Seeing Science Through Art
- Where the River Begins (Picture Puffins)
- Cloud Dance
- The Mare on the Hill (Picture Puffins)
- The Boy Who Held Back the Sea
- Home: A Journey through America
- Family Farm (Picture Puffins)
- Sailing with the Wind
- The Young Artist (Picture Puffins)
- To Climb a Waterfall
- Catskill Eagle
- Mountain Dance
- Walking With Henry: Based on the Life and Works of Henry David Thoreau
- John Muir: America's Naturalist
- Anna and the Bagpiper
- Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder
- The Land of Gray Wolf
- Miranda's Smile
- Washington Irving's Rip Van Winkle
- In Blue Mountains: An Artist's Return to America's First…
- Snow Toward Evening: A Year in a River Valley : Nature Poems Selected by…
- Hudson: The Story of a River
- The Ice Horse
- Thomas Locker; the new American realism
- Thomas Locker : American landscapes : [exhibition] September 16-October 4,…
- The man who paints nature
- Rip vanWinkle
- American Landscapes