Robert Lockwood lives and works in Maine. He studied painting and design at the Philadelphia College of Art. Leaving PCA after his second year, he worked as an assistant Golf Pro at the Basin Harbor Club in Vergennes, Vermont, designed a start-up weekly newspaper, The Free Press, in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, studied classical guitar with Eddie Alkire in Easton, Pennsylvania, and in 1963 continued his art and music education in Madrid, Spain, studying with guitarist Aurelio Garci.

Afterward he received bachelor and master’s degrees in fine art from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, taught drawing and design at the Philadelphia College of Art and has shown his paintings and drawings at the Marian Locks Gallery in Philadelphia and the O.K. Harris Hundred Acres Gallery in New York City.

Lockwood’s work is in several private collections in the United States and Europe, and in museums, including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Allentown Art Museum, both in Pennsylvania; the Albright-Knox Gallery, a modern art museum in Buffalo, New York, and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.