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Ernest Hamlin Baker
Fortune Magazine cover Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist

circa 1930

About the Item

Fortune Magazine cover, Depression-Era Illustration, WPA industrial Modernist. Signed lower left. The drawing measures 13. x 11 inches. Framed by Bark, the work is 23 x 20 inches. BIO Ernest Hamlin Baker (1889-1975) born in 1889 in Rhode Island and was a self-taught illustrator. Most of his works were covers for Time Magazine, although he was responsible for eleven covers for Fortune Magazine between 1929 and 1941. Beginning in 1939, Baker produced over 300 covers for Time during his 17 year tenure with the magazine. He was described by Time publisher, Ralph Ingersoll, as an artist who could do anything. During the 1930s, Baker became involved in several WPA programs, one being "Activities of the Narragansett Planters", a 1939 mural which is located in the Wakefield Post Office in South Kingstown, Rhode Island. This drawing is an unpublished proposal. Provenance: The artists's estate.
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