Ward LOCKWOOD (born September 22 , 1894, Atchinson, Kansas–died July 6, 1963, Ranchos de Taos, New mexico) studied at the Pennsylvania Academy and in Paris, and developed a talent for several forms of modernist painting. Moving to Taos, New Mexico, in 1926 Lockwood along with his friends John Marin, Andrew Dasburg and Kenneth Adams, took regional painting in a modernist direction. Lockwood painted cubist, expressionist, surrealist, and constructivist style while in Taos. During his career, Lockwood also worked for the WPA and Federal Arts Project, and exhibited with the abstract-expressionist painters of the San Fransisco Art Association.