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John Lockwood Kipling and Rudyard Kipling, c.1890. John Lockwood Kipling CIE (6 July 1837 – 26 January 1911) was an English art teacher, illustrator and museum curator who spent most of his career in India. He was the father of the author Rudyard Kipling.
- Art teacher, illustrator, museum curator
- Rudyard Kipling
- 6 July 1837, Pickering, North Yorkshire, England
- 26 January 1911 (aged 73), Tisbury, Wiltshire, England
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) is the father of Rudyard and Alice Kipling and husband to Alice MacDonald Kipling. He was born John Kipling and raised in Yorkshire, England, and was the son of a Methodist minister (Reverend Joseph Kipling).
New York Public Library, image ID 1549644. John Lockwood Kipling, who was born in Kirbymoorside, near Pickering in Yorkshire, on 6 July 1837, is best known in England as the father of the writer Rudyard Kipling. But he was tremendously gifted in his own right.
In 2017 the V&A will open an exhibition about John Lockwood Kipling, curated by Julius Bryant (V&A) and Susan Weber (Bard Graduate Centre). It will present the results of a 3-year international research project bringing together scholars from Mumbai, Lahore, London, New York, Vermont and Hawaii.
Born in Pickering, North Yorkshire, John Lockwood Kipling’s interest in art and design was sparked by a visit to the Great Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations held in London in 1851. This experience proved to be a formative one when he became involved in the decoration of the South Kensington Museum.
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"Kipling as a Sculptor." In Bryant and Weber. 81-105. Bryant, Julius, and Susan Weber, eds. John Lockwood Kipling: Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London. New York: Bard Graduate Centre Gallery; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2017. James, Elizabeth. "Kipling and Book Illustration.
John Lockwood Kipling (1837-1911) My father was not only a mine of knowledge and help, but a humorous, tolerant, and expert fellow-craftsman. — Rudyard Kipling, Something of Myself, 40. His reports from the field on Indian handicraft practice were an important source for British craftsmen and designers in the late nineteenth century.
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