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Read Lockhart was born in Lake Bluff, IL. He is the son of David L. Lockhart, a photographer, woodworker, and designer, and the grandson of the late American wildlife painter, James Lockhart. After receiving a bachelor of arts degree in the classics from St. John's College in 2000, Read spent years traveling and living abroad. Then he choose to continue in the visual arts tradition of his father and grandfather before him. Read studied drawing and painting through a series of apprenticeships in Florence, Italy and New York. Currently, he lives in Philadelphia where he completed the Masters of Fine Arts program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 2014.