Dwight Baird Art

An original painting by Canadian artist Dwight Baird titled Days of Dust and Diamonds, part of his renowned Baseball Collection from the early 1990s. Baird, an avid baseball fan and ...

Havana, Cuba - Time marches on everywhere. In Cuba, as in many tropical countries, the pace seems slower in the country and in the villages, but accelerated, almost frenetic, in big ...

Havana, Cuba – Although often a very frenetic city, life on some side streets away from the centre are often quite quiet. Here, a young man sitting in the shade waits for someone who...

Trinidad, Cuba – Trinidad is a smaller, colonial city on the southeast coast of the island.Many houses are painted bright, tropical colours and the horse is still one of the main mea...

Havana, Cuba –In most southern, tropical cities, buildings are designed in a way to hide from the hot, afternoon sun and Havana is no exception. Pillars support balconies of the old,...

Matanzas, Cuba – Mantanzas is a smaller city about an hour west of Havana on the north shore of the island. It is where three rivers meet and is sometimes referred to as the Venice o...

Havana, Cuba - There is nothing glamourous about the work that keeps a city clean. And keeping a city like Havana clean is a pretty monumental task. There are a lot of piles of garba...

Gibara, Guba – Good to get out of the city once in a while – out to the country and see life in the village – el pueblo. Gibara is a quiet town on the east side of the island about a...

Havana, Cuba – Chess is very popular in Cuba. It is a common sight to see people playing on the street, in doorways and in parks under the shade of overhanging trees. Here, two young...

Gibara, Cuba – In Cuba, they say Columbus landed in America in Gibara, small town about half an hour from Holguien , on the western end of the island. But then, it Columbus seems to ...

This original watercolor by Dwight Baird, titled Seville, Spain (1982), is a striking early work from the artist’s formative travels through Europe. Painted entirely on location, not...

Havana, Cuba – There is never much very interesting on TV on the four state run channels and most families don’t have a lot games or toys. When not in school, many children spend mos...