[From the Community Collection, a public trust in Agincourt, Iowa]

LOCKHART, Isobel Anne [1867-1910)

“Fishing: Crispin Creek”

ca 1908

oil on canvas / 15.4 inches x 19.3 inches

This delightful impressionist work was painted about 1908 by Isobel Lockhart, a primary school teacher at Charles Darwin public school. Miss Lockhart’s origins are uncertain but she taught in Agincourt from 1898 until her death on 21 March 1910. She was one of forty-five victims on the Green Mountain train wreck, Iowa’s most notorious rail disaster.

Miss Lockhart was an amateur artist, adjunct to her career as a primary school teacher, but reflective, we believe, of her educational strategies. She eventually shared a home with fellow teacher Miss Rose Kavana(ugh). Kavana inherited the piece, which then passed to Howard Tabor, and to Rowan Oakes, from whom it came to the Community Collection.