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
"Eating at the Airline Diner", surrealist, red, blue, yellow, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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2010s Surrealist John Baker Art
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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
"Abstraction", contemporary, collage, color symphony, vibrant, 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 ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Pygmalion and Galatea", contemporary, white, greys, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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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 Franklin, 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
"He Stayed Behind in Katmandu II", Contemporary, Portrait, Collage, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Canvas
"Man of the World", Contemporary, Portrait, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
$1,920 Sale Price
36% Off
"Man Adjusting his Tie", surrealist, green, red, blue, yellow, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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2010s Surrealist John Baker Art
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Canvas, Acrylic
"An Evening at Chess", contemporary, red, orange, acrylic, collage, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Sanctuary Morning", Contemporary Portrait, Green, Collage, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Sanctuary Morning” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 63 x 51 x 1.5 inches pervaded by the many different greens of a New England Forest in early spring. Sha...
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Early 2000s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Music Makers", Contemporary, Figures, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2023
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Madman #1", Contemporary Portrait, Maroon, Grey, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Mountain Embrace", Contemporary, Blue, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2005
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Tip Toe Kiss", Contemporary, Forest, Green, Collage, Acrylic, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Down he Goes III", contemporary, portrait, male, 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 ...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Pacific Celebration", contemporary, collage, blue, yellow, red, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Pacific Celebration” is an acrylic painting with collage on canvas 66 x 50 inches in greens, blues, yellows and rose reds. As though at a fantastical wedding, the color...
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2010s Contemporary 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 Franklin, 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
"Young Man with a Bouquet of his own Thoughts", Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2005
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Old Man Winter", contemporary, blue, greys, acrylic, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Multiple Personality Disorder", portrait, collage, black, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Multiple Personality Disorder” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage and custom frame 28 x 26.5 x 4 inches in greys, blacks, whites and flesh tones. Outer and i...
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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 Franklin, 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
"Indecision", contemporary, portrait, blue, red, acrylic, mixed media painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Down he Goes I", contemporary, portrait, male, grey, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Down he Goes I,” an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in greys, greens and earth tones, is from the artist’s new “Fall of the White Male Series.” T...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Urban Melancholy: An Imaginary Portrait", Contemporary, Blues, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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 ...
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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 Franklin, 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", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
$1,520 Sale Price
20% Off
"Young Debutante with a Mask of her Mother", acrylic, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Old Madman 4", Contemporary, Portrait, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2020
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"In One Ear and Out the Other", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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....
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"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,...
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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 Franklin, 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
"A Good Read", Contemporary, Acrylic, Collage, Girl, Yellow, Red, Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Canvas
"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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Madman I", portrait, figure, insanity, 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,...
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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 Franklin, 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
"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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Man Listening to a Bird", Portrait, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2017
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Harvest", Contemporary, Figure, Woods, Collage, Acrylic, Mixed Media, 2019
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Old Man Releasing a Caged Bird", acrylic, portrait, collage, blue, brown
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Old Man Releasing a Caged Bird” is an imaginary portrait painting, acrylic on canvas with collage, 24 x 18 x 1.5 inches in browns, blues and f...
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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 Franklin, 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
"Shooting the Rapids", Contemporary, Portrait, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Ppainting
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...
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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 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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Thoughts of the Great Outdoors", contemporary, collage, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Masks of a Novelist: An Imaginary Portrait of Tom Wolfe", acrylic, painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Eclipse Chaser", Contemporary, Figure, Landscape, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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 Franklin, 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
"Domestic Dispute", contemporary, collage, woman, man, blue, red, mixed media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Down he Goes II", portrait, collage, male, tans, earth tones, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"A Good Scratch", contemporary, collage, blues, portrait, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"Old Man Riding a Tricycle", Red, Collage, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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
"A Meeting in Rome II", Contemporary, Portrait, Acrylic, Collage, Painting, 2012
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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 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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Art
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
John Baker art for sale on 1stDibs.
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.