Dwight Baird Paintings
Canadian, b. 1957
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Artist: Dwight Baird
'Playing For Keeps' 2018- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Green Light
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - It's a hot day in the city...blinding hot. Spiffy, shining vintage cars cool down tourists as they speed along through city streets. A spot of vibrant purple hues wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Time' 2015- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Aloneness of Winter
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A soft veil of snow falls gently over Montreal, blanketing the city in quiet stillness. The muted sky casts a serene glow, and the air, crisp and cool, carries a sense of peaceful so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Dwight Baird-Red, White and Blue from the Baseball Collection
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In his 1993 series For Love of the Game, Canadian artist Dwight Baird pays tribute to America's beloved pastime with a vibrant depiction of 30 baseballs, each adorned with the insign...
Category
1990s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'A Passing Moment' 2021- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Many people have very little to do many days in Cuba, especially the elderly and the young – ‘Nada que hacer.’ Just sitting around. Waiting for a change that never ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
White Water Wall
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Along the seawall, La Malecon, towards the east end. A bad weather day – hopefully not the beginning on a “ciclón”, with hurricane winds which sometime sweep across th...
Category
2010s Realist Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Study for Dust and Diamonds
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Study for Days of Dust and Diamonds is a maquette by Canadian artist Dwight Baird, executed in watercolor and ink on paper. This smaller-scale work serves as a preparatory piece for ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Ballpoint Pen
'Shelter' 2020- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - On a rainy day a man sits quietly waiting for a bus. Life in the street splashes by as people try and hide from the downpour - under umbrellas, if they have them - whi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Mucha Calor!
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cortés, Costa Rica - It is very hot most days in Costa Rica, and the heat can slow people down. Sometimes the only thing to do is just sit down with a fan and wait for welcoming cool...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Riders On The Storm' 2015- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Whoa! What a crazy weather day! Driving rain, wind and the spray of the waves smashing over La Malecon. But a streak of yellow cuts through the grey, bringing a bit of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Shadowland' 2019- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba – I very much enjoy using a kind of silhouette style in my work where there is an object or person in the shade. I find this accentuates the play or dark and light and m...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Blue In Between' 2023- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Mother And Child' 2015- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Holguien, Cuba - Woman working accompanied by small children is a common sight in Cuba. Daycares are non-existent and leaving a child with someone is rarely an option as most people ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Small Shade' 2020- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Holquien, Cyba - A hot day in Holguien, Cuba, a city on the west side of the island. Just off the main plaza, someone seeks a bit of shade from the heavy, mid-afternoon heat. Small ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Don Tin's Pizza' 2017- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba – Pizza anyone? Head on over to Don Tin’s Pizza and grab a slice with all the toppings – well, maybe a couple of toppings depending on what is available on any given day...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Corner Red
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba – Watch out! A vintage, red careens around a corner with a cargo of people going here, there, somewhere and everywhere. A lot of the older cars, the ones that are not al...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Bavaria
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Summer in the city and it's a hot one today. Parasols or umbrellas are not just for rainy days in tropical countries. They are also just as important on blue, cloudles...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A Cortés Christmas
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cortés, Costa Rica -I was travelling there in early January, walking around and exploring village life when I came across this little blue house still decorated for the festive seaso...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Boat for Rent
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Golfito, Costa Rica - A small town with a nice bay in southern Costa Rica. It used to be a destination for sail fishing but the sailfish all sailed away...And now there are a lot of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Love Inside
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cortés, Costa Rica - Just another day in the. small village of Cortés. Costa Rica. A man walks slowly in the sunny street with his bicycle, unaware of two young lovers sharing a kiss...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Street Light
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba – The initial smaller painting/study for the larger piece entitled, “Moonlight Serenade”. Whereas the larger painting features two cars plus a full moon, here a solitary...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Havana Orange
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba – A nice, sunny day – perfect for a group of vintage lovelies to parade up and down along La Malecon. With the tops down on the vintage autos and the wind rushing throu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Ride The Mist' 2016- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Another rainy day in Havana – “tiempo bruto” as the locals say. But life goes on, people come and go and those old, classic cars just keep chuggin’ on, through the rainy mist as th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Moonlight Serenade' 2021- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Ah, the full moon. Havana is such a romantic city and what better romantic activity can one do then stroll along the waterfront on La Malecon with your sweetheart, und...
Category
2010s Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Rush Hour' 2021- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Honk, honk! Beep, Beep! Oye! Andele acere! Lots of cars, noise and people on many of the city’s busier streets. And forget about any kind of anti-pollution device. Nop...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Dead End Orange' 2020- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - They say for every building they manage to save and renovate in Havana, ten others fall down. It is a daunting task trying to re-build and entire city after so many ye...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Country Blue' 2019- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vinales, Cuba - An escape from the city to Vinales, a small town on the eastern tip of the island, where the house are all painted vibrant colours and people spend a lot of time in r...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Blue Fins With Flowers' 2018- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba - Maybe it is just me, but every time I see those old, classic cars with the fins and lights, I somehow, somewhere, see a shark silently swimming in deep waters. And her...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Outta Gas' 2014- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Baracoa, Cuba - Not only is this vintage blue out of gas, so is the entire station. A neglected fuel oasis in a forgotten corner of the small, end of the island town, of Baracoa. Loc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'City Work' 2018- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Boatyard Visitors' 2021- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Hasta La Victoria Siempre' 2010- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Old Woman And Chickens' 2002- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Blue Shade' 2014- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Havana, Cuba – I often refer to this painting as a reverse composition – the majority of artist would have painted it from the other side of the pillars. But I liked the composition,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Pueblo' 2019- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Parqueo Estatal' 2018- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
'Quiet Corner' 2017- Acrylic- Signed
By Dwight Baird
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Dwight Baird Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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