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
"Old Man Winter", contemporary, blue, greys, acrylic, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Two Dummies", surrealist, brown, tan, grey, mixed media, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Surrealist John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Aurora", contemporary, woman, greens, blues, acrylic, collage, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Aurora” is a 31 x 34 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas in luminous greens, blues and pearly whites that depicts a young woman contemplating a display o...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense", Contemporary, Portrait, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Young Man with a Bouquet of his own Thoughts", Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2005
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Music in the Garden", contemporary, pink, green, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Evening Downpour", Contemporary, Portrait, Woman, Acrylic Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Abstraction", contemporary, collage, color symphony, vibrant, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, 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 ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"An Evening at Chess", contemporary, red, orange, acrylic, collage, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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 ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Smoker", contemporary, pencil on paper, portrait, collage, drawing
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s portrait “Smoker” is a pencil drawing on paper with collage 22 inches by 14 ½ inches. Concentration and disorientation are both well captured in the smoker’s face, which...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Mixed Media, Paper, Pencil
"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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Any Three-Year-Old Could Paint That", Contemporary, Mixed Media Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Any Three-Year-Old Could Paint That” is a 35 x 50 inch acrylic painting on canvas with collage in bright yellows, reds, blues and whites. The young artist wears an expr...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Young Son with his Parents", collage, blue, maroon, yellow, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Down he Goes V", contemporary, portrait, male, grey, acrylic, collage, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Down he Goes V,” an acrylic painting on collage with collage 20 x 16 inches in yellow and red ochres with black and greys, is from the artist’s new “Fall of the White M...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Young Debutante with a Mask of her Mother", acrylic, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Domestic Dispute", contemporary, collage, woman, man, blue, red, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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 ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Thumbs Up", contemporary, portrait, brown, grey, collage, acrylic painting
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Lifelong Priorities of a Priest", contemporary, collage, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Lifelong Priorities of a Priest” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 inches by 16 inches in maroon, flesh tones and blacks. Bedecked with official awards from his superiors, but also wearing a bird badge...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Blind Surgeon", contemporary, portrait, acrylic, collage, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Blind Surgeon” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 inches by 18 inches in flesh tones and light greys. Unkempt, one eye closed and the other pressed by a m...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Young Man with a Device", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Collage, Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Young Man with a Device” is a 19 x 14.25 x 1.5 inch acrylic painting with collage on canvas depicting a youth possessively clutching a technological device. The large, ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Man of the World", contemporary, portrait, acrylic, 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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome I", contemporary, acrylic, collage, 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,...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Mountain Embrace", Contemporary, Blue, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2005
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Down he Goes II", portrait, collage, male, tans, earth tones, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Shooting the Rapids", Contemporary, Portrait, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Ppainting
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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"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
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"On the Beach", Contemporary, Portrait, Browns, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2003
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...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Man Riding a Tricycle", Red, Collage, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting, 2018
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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 ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Eclipse Chaser", Contemporary, Figure, Landscape, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Eclipse Chaser”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage, 44 x 24 inches, depicts the inner human experience of a total solar eclipse. Deep solar orange counterpoint...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"He Stayed behind in Katmandu I", Contemporary, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2012
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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” ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Birth of a Galaxy", collage, portrait, maroon, green, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Cramming for the Exam", collage, portrait, blues, yellows, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Cramming for the Exam” is an acrylic portrait painting on canvas with collage 30 inches by 30 inches in dark blues and straw yellows. Although sparks of understanding f...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome II", Contemporary, Portrait, Acrylic, Collage, Painting, 2012
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” ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Light of My Life", Contemporary, Female, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting, 2013
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Southern Belle II", Contemporary, Portrait, Mixed Media Collage Painting, 2013
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
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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Find a wide variety of authentic John Baker art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of yellow and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by John Baker in mixed media, acrylic paint, canvas and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large John Baker art, so small editions measuring 9 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Kat Flyn, Jessica Houston, and Audrey Anastasi. John Baker art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $485 and tops out at $7,600, while the average work can sell for $2,300.