John Baker Art
American, b. 1944
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.
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Artist: John Baker
"Thumbs Up", acrylic painting, portrait, collage, brown, grey, lavender
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Madman 3", portrait, greys, browns, whites, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Old Madman #3”, an imaginary portrait 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches in flesh tones, greys, browns and whites, is from the artist’s important “Madman Series”. As Yeats wrote: “An...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Mother/Daughter Duo", contemporary, portrait, pinks, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s portrait, “Mother/Daughter Duo” is a contemporary acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches in flesh tones, pinks and light earth tones. The intimacy ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"In One Ear and Out the Other", portrait, pink, blue, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s portrait “In One Ear and Out the Other” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 18 inches in various pinks and purples with blue and emerald green highlights....
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Shooting the Rapids", contemporary, figure, blues, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Madman #1", portrait, maroon, grey, blues, pinks, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Old Madman #1”, an imaginary portrait 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches in maroon, grey, blues and pinks, is the inaugural work in the artist’s important “Madman Series”. As Yeats w...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Treat for Sasha", acrylic, portrait, collage, orange, green, brown, red
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Flute Player", contemporary, portrait, orange, green, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Flute Player” is a contemporary acrylic painting on canvas with collage. The portrait is 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches in flesh tones, oranges, greens and browns. The detail and...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Good Scratch", contemporary, collage, blues, portrait, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “A Good Scratch” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 20 x 1.5 inches in royal blues, golden yellows and flesh tones. Part of the modernist and post-modern...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Siblings: An Imaginary Portrait", contemporary, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Three Lovers", portrait, pinks, blues, greys, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s portrait “Three Lovers” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in pinks and blues standing forward from a broad array of rich greys. The third love...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Imaginary Portrait of Empress Maria Theresa", acrylic, collage, pinks, silver
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Imaginary Portrait of Empress Maria Theresa”, Eighteenth Century Empress of Austria, is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 40 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Harvest", collage, figure, forest, greens, yellows, acrylic, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Harvest” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 60 x 44 inches in deep greens, and light pinks and yellows. The sun is the dominant motif in this intricate compo...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Shotgun Wedding", portrait, bride, green, white, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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,...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Foot Feel", contemporary, figure, blues, pinks, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"At the Easel", acrylic, canvas, collage, portrait, flesh tones, red, blue
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Southern Belle: An Imaginary Portrait", woman, pastel, pink, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Southern Belle: An Imaginary Portrait”, a 43 x 32 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas is from the artist’s Socialite series...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Her Beautiful Thoughts", acrylic, mixed media, collage, painting, pinks, blue
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Her Beautiful Thoughts” is a 23.5 x 19.5 x 1.5 inches acrylic painting with collage on canvas in light pinks and blues and deep russets. The active dispersion of small ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Masks of a Novelist: An Imaginary Portrait of Tom Wolfe", acrylic, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Masks of a Novelist: An Imaginary Portrait of Tom Wolfe”, a 42 x 32 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas, is not so much a depiction of Tom Wolfe’s appear...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Imaginary Portrait of Wanda Landowska", acrylic, collage, blues, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “ Imaginary Portrait of Wanda Landowska”, a 72 x 32 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage in rich azure and ultramarine blues with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Thoughts of the Great Outdoors", contemporary, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Thoughts of the Great Outdoors” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 82 x 36 inches in rich and resonant greens and blues sug...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Madman I", portrait, collage, figure, insanity, grey, brown, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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,...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"On the Beach", contemporary, couple, browns, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “On the Beach”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 68 x 46 x 1.5 inches in lavenders, maroons and Van Dyck browns, depicts a couple together in fantastic costumes as they brave a dark world. Conjoined as bodies, they form a powerful dyad of selves expressing triumph rather than mere forbearance. Their thoughts and feelings, brilliant flashes of light lavender and yellow above and between their heads, are like insights and interpersonal connections illuminating the darkness. The painting’s title and meaning allude to Neville Shute’s On the Beach and, subliminally, to Matthew Arnold...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome II", acrylic, collage, divided self, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “A Meeting in Rome II, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, 29 x 27 inches, in cardinal red, lavenders, yellows and green, is part of the artist’s “divided self” ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"New Year's Eve", contemporary, woman, reds, blues, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “New Year’s Eve”, a 60 x 30 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas, is painted in ruby reds, aquamarine blue-greens, and deep Prussian blues. Two women (or perhaps three) have allowed a small boy to stay up with them until midnight; he joins the raucous celebration by blowing on a yellow noise maker...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Sanctuary Kiss", contemporary, forest, greens, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Sanctuary Kiss”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 37 ¾ x 24 ¾ inches in luminous greens accented with light cobalt blues, is from the artist’s Sanctuary serie...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Mountain Embrace", contemporary, blues, pinks, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Mountain Embrace” is an acrylic painting with collage on canvas 67 x 46 x 1.5 inches in pinks, blues, greens and yellows. The cluster of intertwined, nearly life size f...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Young Man with a Device", acrylic, mixed media, collage, painting, technology
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Young Man with a Device” is a 19 x 15 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas depicting a youth possessively clutching a technological device. The large, dark device is an ominous presence that contrasts dramatically with the pastel pinks, yellows and russets of his face and garments, a contrast echoed in the divided background, which is half light half dark. The young man grasps the device with a tension, even a desperation that belies the serenity of his facial expression. The sides are unpainted and the painting is signed and dated on the reverse. The painting is housed in a vintage, gilded Arts and Crafts style frame...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Man Riding a Tricycle", acrylic, collage, red, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Old Man Riding a Tricycle”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 44 x 36 x .75 inches in intense red, yellows and greens, is a tongue-incheek depiction of the equ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Man of the World", acrylic, collage, portrait, neutral, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Man of the World”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, an imaginary portrait 27.5 x 21 inches, in muted neutral tones highlighted by lemon and golden yellows and chalky reds, is from the artist’s “Mask” series...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Interpretation of Dreams: an Imaginary Portrait, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “The Interpretation of Dreams: an Imaginary Portrait”, an acrylic painting on canvas 30 x 30 inches in maroons, tans and mint green, is from the artist’s “Psychoanalyst ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome I", acrylic, collage, divided self, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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,...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Canvas
"Old Man Listening to a Bird", portrait, blue, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Old Man Listening to a Bird” is an 18 x 14 x 1 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage. An imaginary portrait with dark tones and off whites and a saturated blue highlight, details the facial expression and inner spiritual response of an old man as he listens to a little blue bird. Trustingly close, and made still closer by the extremely low position of the man’s ear...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Southern Belle II", acrylic, collage, painting, socialite, blues, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s Southern Belle II, a 41.5 x 29 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage, is from the artist’s “Socialite” series. Painted in past...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Light of My Life", acrylic, mixed media, collage, painting, female, blues
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"In the Sea", acrylic, mixed media, collage, painting, ocean, men, woman
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “In the Sea” is a 47.75 x 29.5 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas that is an expressive depiction of men and women in the ocean. The freely brushed blue ...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Song", contemporary, female, singer, multi-colored, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Tip Toe Kiss", contemporary, forest, greens, collage, acrylic, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Tiptoe Kiss” is a 64 x 35 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas in intense reds, greens and yellows of a young couple about to kiss in a forest. The centra...
Category
2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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