John Baker Art

John Baker’s “They Now call it Grooming” is an acrylic on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in blacks, purples and greens. His tie being adjusted and his hair being patted down, a young innocent...

John Baker’s “Regression and Development” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage in tans and browns with red and yellow accents. Although the painting depicts a smiling young ...

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...

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...

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...

John Baker’s “An Evening at Chess” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 50 x 40 x 1.5 inches in cadmium red-orange, lime greens and deep and lighter blues. The king’s crown ...

John Baker’s “Maternal Love” is a 18 x 13 ¾ x 2 ¼ inch acrylic on canvas with collage in pinks, greens and blues. The nurturing mother gently kisses her near adolescent daughter; inn...

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...

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...

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...

John Baker’s “Young Man with a Bouquet” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 48 x 36 inches in strong yellows, reds, blues and greens. The painting depicts a youth sadly co...

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 ...

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...

John Baker’s “Ethnic Meld #3” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 17.75 x 15.75 inches in pinks, reds and ochers. The noted American painter George Tooker (1920-2011), hims...

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...

John Baker’s “The Greatest Possible Success” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 20 inches in greys, silvers and whites. The dramatic verticality of Gotham’s architect...

John Baker’s “Man Adjusting his Tie” is an acrylic painting on canvas 24 x 18 inches in greens and reds with blue and yellow color accents. The disheveled appearance of the man impli...

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...

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...

John Baker’s “Maidenhood and Expectancy: Two Studio Sketches of Felicia” is a pair of matching paintings 23.25 x 22.75 inches and 24 x 20 inches in greys, whites, pinks and blacks. B...

John Baker’s “Lifelong Priorities of a Priest” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in maroon, flesh tones and blacks. Bedecked with official awards from his superiors, but also wearing a bird badge...

John Baker’s “Target Practice” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 26 inches in rich browns and blacks complementing the buff color of the collaged paper. The merciles...

John Baker’s “Old Man Winter” is a 16 x 12 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage in tans and blue greys. The weather-beaten face of the wizened o...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

John Baker’s “The Death of Nelson Rockefeller”, a double portrait, is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 36 x 48 x 1.5 inches in pinks, grey...

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...

John Baker’s “Eating at the Airline Diner” is an acrylic on canvas with collage 30 x 30 inches in reds, yellows and blues with green accents. The iconic diner, in Queens, New York, i...

John Baker’s “Young Debutante with a Mask of her Mother”, an acrylic painting with collage on canvas 25 x 21.75 inches in dusty lavenders, blues and pinks, is from the artist’s Mask Series...

John Baker’s “Evening Downpour” is an acrylic painting on canvas 40 x 30 inches in rich lavenders and electric blues. The smiling young woman is totally unperturbed by the complete i...

John Baker’s “Music in the Garden” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 48 x 46 inches in orange, green, lavender, pink and yellow. A sense of ebullience is everywhere throu...

John Baker’s “Imaginary Portrait of Empress Maria Theresa”, Eighteenth Century Empress of Austria, is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 40 ...

John Baker’s “The Two Dummies” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 24 x 1.5 inches wide in browns, tans and greys with red and yellow accents. The wooden neck lever of the ventriloquist suggests that he is in reality the dummy of the young boy; and yet, impossibly, both seem to be the dummies of one another! Regardless, the brightness of the props on the prop table...

John Baker’s “Urban Melancholy: An Imaginary Portrait” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 x 1.5 inches that compounds the reflective sadness of two sisters, one a ...

John Baker’s “A Family of Means” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 38 x 50 inches in blues, reds, and pinks. Depicted in their commodious library, the wealthy family exudes a sense of arrogant privilege and shameless materialism. The matriarch displays her rings to the spectator as though their monetary value was proof of her worth as a person, while her son, in his prep school blazer...

John Baker’s “He Stayed behind in Katmandu I” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 23 x 16 x 1.5 inches in light Prussian blues, russets and flesh tones. The western “suit” ...

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...

John Baker’s “Indecision” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 18 inches in sapphire blue highlighted by rich orange-reds and soft whites. The portrait of a young woman...

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...

John Baker’s “Cramming for the Exam” is an acrylic portrait painting on canvas with collage 30 x 30 inches in dark blues and straw yellows. Although sparks of understanding flicker a...

John Baker’s “Rough Going on the Inside” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 36 x 28 inches in olive greens and dark reds. Unlike in Chagall, where the inverted heads sugge...

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...

John Baker’s “Pygmalion and Galatea” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 63 x 36 inches, in pearl whites and a wide range of greys: green grey, grey white, and dark, rich g...

John Baker’s “A Good Read” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 46 x 40 inches in yellows and lavenders with dusty red accents. Anecdotal to the extreme, the painting depict...

John Baker’s “Down he Goes II,” an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in tans, whites and earth tones with red and green highlights, is from the artist’s new “Fal...

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...

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 ...

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,...

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...

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 ...

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...

John Baker’s “A Broad Grin” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 20 inches in greys, greens and blacks, with flesh tones. A broad grin has been defined as “one in which...

John Baker’s “He Stayed Behind in Katmandu II” is an acrylic portrait painting on canvas with collage 20.25 x 17.75 x 1.5 inches in blues, tans, pinks and flesh tones. The western “s...

John Baker’s “Rush Hour Tryst” is an acrylic painting on canvas with college 40 x 30 inches in reds and blues with multi-color details. The painting depicts a chance meeting of stran...

John Baker’s “Music Makers” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 30 inches x 40 inches in blues, oranges, pinks, yellows and browns. The image is accomplished in contrasting...

John Baker’s “Domestic Dispute”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, 48 x 36 x 1.5 inches in blues and flesh tones with red and white accents, depicts a violent moment in a b...

John Baker’s “Birth of a Galaxy” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage measuring 43 x 28.75 inches, in maroon, green and flesh tones, depicting a galactic density of stars, s...

John Baker’s “Young Son with his Parents” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 39 x 30 inches in rich, mid-range blues with maroon and yellow accents. The son has triumphed: two of his four hands are clasped above his head in celebration like those of a victorious boxer, while his upended parents express their inverted and subordinate positions in the nuclear family...