LOCKHART, Isobel Anne [1867-1910]

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

LOCKHART, Isobel Anne [1867-1910] 

“Fishing: Crispin Creek”

1908

oil on canvas board / (15.4 inches x 19.3 inches)

Miss Lockhart was a primary teacher at Agincourt’s Charles Darwin Public School from 1898 until her tragic death on the Green Mountain Train Wreck, Iowa’s most notorious rail disaster.* From the personal collection of Rose Kavanaugh, it was given to Howard Tabor, then to Rowan Oakes, from whom it came to the Community Collection.

Lockhart’s subject is a late afternoon of fishing on the Crispin Creek bridge southeast of Agincourt. The sportsman is unidentified but the framing was done by our own Gladden Galleries ca1915.

* Lockhart’s name does not appear in the published list of victims but may have been one of “ten…so badly disfigured that their identity cannot be discovered.”