John Baker is a widely exhibited painter based in Boston and New York whose solo exhibitions have been favorably reviewed in the Boston Globe (his paintings demonstrate that the human figure as a source of fresh ideas still endures), Art New England (Baker’s collages raise a bunch of interesting issues) and American Art Collector (John Baker’s wonderful and worthy project). A native of New York City, Baker was a pupil of Donald Judd for two years. The influence of the sculptor’s constructivist method remains an influence on Baker’s collage process, but Baker’s artistic results are more sensual and emotional as he adds the elements of subtle color harmony and reliance on impulse.
"Studio Sketch of Lydia", Surrealist Portrait, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Studio Sketch of Lydia" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in pinks, greens and whites. Part of the "Studio Visitors series; Lydia was a zany ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$750
"Studio Sketch of Arthur", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Studio Sketch of Arthur" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in tans and browns with pink, yellow and blue accents. Part of the "Studio Visitor...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Post-Truth Era V", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era V “ is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in blues, whites, tans and browns. In our post-truth era it is next to impossible to...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Dressing the Sewing Dummy", Surrealist, Red, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Dressing the Sewing Dummy” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 38 x 20 inches by .75 inch in reds, yellows, blues and purples. A young seamstress is elated by...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Poetry and Painting", Surrealist, Portrait, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Poetry and Painting” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 21 x 18.75 inches in reds, blues, greys and pinks. In this image the sister arts of poetry and painti...
Canvas, Acrylic
$880Sale Price|20% Off
"Upstate", Surrealist Landscape, Farm, Red, Green, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Upstate" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in greens, reds and tans. The organization of space and surface brings order to farm and town, whi...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,100
"Extensive Park in Springtime", Surrealist Landscape, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Extensive Park in Springtime" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in saturated light and mid-range greens and tans with pale pink accents. The ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Sister Mary Josephine", Surrealist, Black, White, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Sister Mart Josephine" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 30 x 24 inches in blacks, whites and tans with red, blue and lavender accents. Part of the "Studio ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Self Chaperone", Surrealist, Portrait, Mixed Media Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Self-Chaperone” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 28 x 22 inches in flesh tones, yellows and greys. The portrait depicts the inner conflict between uninhibi...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Madman 4", Contemporary Portrait, Brown, Grey, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Old Madman #4”, an imaginary portrait 14 x 18 x .75 inches in flesh tones, greys, browns and whites, is from the artist’s important “Madman Series”. As Yeats wrote: “An...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,175
"The Post-Truth Era VIII", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era VIII” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 14 inches in blues, yellows, pinks and whites. In the post-truth era normal interpersonal in...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Surrealist Acrylic Collage on Canvas, 40x30, "The Judge and his Laws"
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Judge and his Laws” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 40 x 30 inches in reds, yellows, greys and browns. The judge is festooned with fragments of appare...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Studio Sketch of Valerie", Surrealist, Brown, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Valerie” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 18 x 14 inches in pinks, greys and browns. When Valerie visited my studio she at first stayed ve...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Garden Temple", Surrealist Landscape, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Garden Temple" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 29 13/16 x 23 7/8 inches in greens and blues. The temple alludes to the veneration of nature, while the col...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,200
"The Book Mark", Surrealist, Portrait, Woman, Maroon, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Book Mark” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 30 x 24 inches in maroon, orange, white and blue. A young woman, dressed in prim fashion, has looked up fro...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,475
"The Post-Truth Era VI", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era VI” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 17 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches in pinks, yellows and greens. In the Post-Truth Era facial expressions have ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Post-Truth Era IX", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era IX” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 13 7/8 x 11 inches in greys and browns with red highlights. In the post-truth era straightforward, ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"AI Takes Over", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Black, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “AI Takes Over” is a 20 x 16 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage in greys, blacks, browns and pinks. The impending excessive reliance on AI (for informati...
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
"Abstraction", Contemporary, Women, Man, Vibrant, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Abstraction” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 36 x 48 inches. A full and vibrant color symphony, the image depicts a large abstract painting being created ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Post-Truth Era VII", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era VII” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 14 x 10 7/8 inches in whites, yellows, greys and green. The post-truth era has seen a resurgence o...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Shooting the Rapids", Contemporary Portrait, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Shooting the Rapids” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 48.5 x 36 inches in rich blues with auburn and red counterpoints and highlights. The young woman’s mood of contemplative reverie contrasts with the pleased and excited feelings of the helmeted crew. Obviously relieved, they float in their white water raft...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
"Shotgun Wedding", Contemporary Portrait, Green, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Shotgun Wedding” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 56 x 30 x 1.5 inches in greens, whites, flesh tones and yellows. The bride is radiant on her wedding day,...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Studio Sketch of Ella", Surrealist, Cream, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Ella” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in creams and browns. The painting is from the “Studio Visitors” series. When Ella a...
Canvas, Acrylic
"A Treat for Sasha", Contemporary Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “A Treat for Sasha” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 36 x 24 x 1.5 inches in oranges, greens, browns and reds. The twirling hands of the pet owner manipulat...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$500Sale Price|20% Off
"Studio Sketch of Dmitri", Surrealist, Tan, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Dmitri” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in tans, greys, blues and whites. When he arrived at the studio Dmitri was immedia...
Canvas, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome I", Contemporary, Acrylic, Collage, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “A Meeting in Rome I”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 36 x 26 inches, in Cardinal red, pink and greens, is from the artist’s “divided self” series. A figure,...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,700
"Cabinet Secretary in his Office", Surrealist, Portrait, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Cabinet Secretary in his Office” is an acrylic painting on canvas 36 x 42 inches in pinks, blues, reds, whites and greys. The secretary’s energies are depicted as both ...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Siblings: An Imaginary Portrait", Contemporary, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Siblings: An Imaginary Portrait” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 11 x 9 x 1.5 inches in pinks, blues and whites. A quintessential image of gender, the pai...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Heavyweight Executives", Surrealist Portrait, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Heavyweight Executives” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 30 inches in dark greens, deep silver greys, and flesh tones. The two executives have put on ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Best of Both Worlds II", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Best of Both Worlds II”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 25 x 22 x 1.5 inches (frame 4 inches wide), is a self-portrait in...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Eating and Drinking I", Surrealist, Green, Yellow, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Eating and Drinking I” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 30 inches in reds, greens and yellows against a neutral background. What at first glance appea...
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
"Light of My Life", Contemporary, Green, Blue, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Light of my Life” is a 58 x 45 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage in harmonized sky blues, yellow greens and radiant whites with pa...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$3,500
"Foot Feel", Contemporary, Figure, Nude, Blue, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Foot Feel” is a contemporary acrylic painting on canvas with collage 48.5 x 36 inches in pastel pinks and blues, and cream whites and lemon yellows. The toes of the gen...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense", Contemporary Portrait, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Ego and the Mechanism’s of Defense” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in beige, blues, greens and ochres. The painting borrows its title from Anna Freud...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Song", Contemporary Portrait, Female Singer, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s "Song" is a 59 x 47 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas whose multi-colored brushstrokes-mostly reds, blues and oranges-give intricate visual form to the music and spirit of an enraptured female singer...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,400
"At the Easel", Contemporary, Portrait, Nude, Red, Acrylic, Collage, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “At the Easel” is a 36 x 30 inch acrylic on canvas with collage in midnight blue, lobster red and flesh tones. Calculated ambiguities and imp...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Rustic Dancer with Puppet", Surrealist Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Rustic Dancer with Puppet" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 72 3/4 inches x 44 1/2 inches in oranges, reds and blues with white and lavender accents. While...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$6,500
"Love in the Hollywood Hills", Surrealist, White, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Love in the Hollywood Hills" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 74 x 37 1/2 inches in oranges, reds and whites with green and blue accents. A country girl ha...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Banquet Feast", Surrealist, Orange, Blue, Yellow, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Banquet Feast" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 35 x 60 inches in oranges, blues greens and yellows. A banquet because it depicts a large, elaborate meal a...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Studio Sketch of Larry", Surrealist Portrait, Grey, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Studio Sketch of Larry" is an acrylic on canvas with collage 16 x 12 inches in greys, greens and pinks. Part of the "Studio Visitors" series; Larry's buffoonery when in...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Windy Day on Face Street", Surrealist Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "A Windy Day on Face Street" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 16 x 12 inches in tans, blues and lavender greys with red accents. On a grey day the wind has ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$6,000
"Dancer Priest", Surrealist Portrait, Red, Pink, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's Dancer-Priest is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 67 x 50 inches including its custom designed collaged frame and is accomplished in reds, scarlets and pinks w...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Wall Street Visigoth", Surrealist Portrait, Man, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Wall Street Visigoth" is an acrylic on canvas with collage 68 x 50 3/4 inches in tans, blues and whites. A synthetic image combining a Wall Street Executive with a Visi...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Collyer Brothers", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Collyer Brothers” is an acrylic portrait painting on canvas with collage 20 x 20 inches in silver greys. Mad as hatters, crazy as bedbugs, and most of all oddly sym...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Birthday Ballet", Surrealist, Party, Blue, Yellow, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Birthday Ballet" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 72 x 46 inches in various blues, yellows and whites. A young woman celebrates her birthday by performing ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Birth of Self", Surrealist Portrait, Woman, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Birth of the Self", is a satirical visualization of a psychological concept of the same name. A woman, absurdly, gives birth to herself as an adult, pearls, earrings be...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Forest Apparition", Surrealist, Green, White, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Forest Apparition" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 66 x 46 inches in a wide variety of greens and yellows with red and white accents. The young woman, bot...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$565
"Grandfather Chappy", Surrealist Portrait, Red, Green, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Grandfather Chappy" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 16 x 12 inches in yellows, reds and greens. Part of the "Studio Sketches" series; when grandfather vis...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
"Pickpocket at the Inauguration", Surrealist Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Pickpocket at the Inauguration" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 40 x 50 inches in reds, yellows, blues and whites. Amid the colorful riot, the manic pagea...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Strong Drink", Surrealist Portrait, Woman, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "A Strong Drink" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, 48 1/2 inches x 31 inches including frame, in lavenders, pinks, reds and yellows. The young woman is abou...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Down he Goes III", Contemporary Male Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Down he Goes III,” an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in silver greys and yellows, is from the artist’s new “Fall of the White Male Series.” The ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Acrylic Collage Painting, "The Apple does not fall far from the Tree"
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Apple does not fall far from the Tree” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 26 x 25 inches in greens, blues, pinks and greys. Whether born alive or from an...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Post-Truth Era X", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era X” is an acrylic on canvas with collage 23 7/8 x 23 7/8 inches in reds, greens, pinks, oranges and greys. In the post-truth era there are no real way...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Self Portrait Painting", Contemporary Portrait, Blue, Collage, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Self Portrait Painting” is an acrylic on canvas with collage 32 x 27.5 inches in russets and greys with bursts and dispersions of prismatic highlights, chiefly blues, yellows and reds. The artist, with loaded palette and brush, is simultaneously his actual self and the image of himself...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$3,200
"Madman I", Contemporary Portrait, Man, Grey, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Madman I” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, 27.25 x 23 inches, an imaginary portrait in muted tones of brown and grey. From the artist’s “Insanity” series,...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Thumbs Up", Contemporary, Portrait, Brown, Grey, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Thumbs Up” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches, in greys, lavenders, browns and flesh tones. The upbeat meaning...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$6,000
"Rainbow Lollipop", Surrealist, Yellow, Pink, Green, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Rainbow Lollipop" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 68 x 44 inches (including its custom-designed collaged frame) in golden yellows, pinks and greens with r...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Forest Embrace", Sureal, Green, Acrylic, Mixed Media Collage, Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Forest Embrace” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 38.5 x 26 inches in a rich variety of greens, silver greys and whites, with blue and yellow accents, is fr...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,475
"The Post-Truth Era XI", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Post-Truth Era XI” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in blues, yellows and pinks. In the post-truth era the interpretation of facial expr...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$8,500
"Picnic Kiss", Surrealist, Orange, Blue, Green, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker's "Picnic Kiss" is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 63 x 41 1/16 inches in oranges and blues with green and red accents. The self-confidence and ease of the youn...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic