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.
$4,000
"The Lonely Crowd", Surrealist, Portrait, Mixed Media, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Lonely Crowd” is a multi-colored acrylic painting on canvas with collage 40 x 60 inches. Blues, yellows and greens predominate while reds provide color accents. The...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,700
"Her Beautiful Thoughts", Contemporary, Portrait, Mixed Media, Collage, Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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 ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Target Practice", Surrealist, Portrait, Brown, Mixed Media, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Multiple Personality Disorder", Contemporary Portrait, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Imaginary Portrait of Empress Maria Theresa", Contemporary, Acrylic, Collage
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Imaginary Portrait of Empress Maria Theresa”, Eighteenth Century Empress of Austria, is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 40 ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Time Passes #2", Surrealist, Portrait, Grey, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Time Passes #2” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in greys and blacks with red and flesh. From the “Life is Short” series, the painting is a ...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Self Chaperone", Surrealist, Portrait, Mixed Media Acrylic Painting, 2020
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
$1,900
"Old Man Releasing a Caged Bird", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Paint
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"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...
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
"Pacific Celebration", Contemporary, Blue, Yellow, Red, Collage, 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...
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
"Southern Belle II", Contemporary, Portrait, Mixed Media Collage Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,900
"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 ...
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
$4,500
"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 ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Rough Going on the Inside", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Mixed Media
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome II", Contemporary Portrait, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
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” ...
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
"Old Madman 3", Contemporary Portrait, Grey, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
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
$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 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
$7,000
"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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,750
"Down he Goes II", Contemporary Portrait, Earth Tones, Collage, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"The Red Hat", Surrealist Portrait, Grey, Black, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “The Red Hat” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 30 x 24 inches in reds, greys, silvers and blacks. The painting shows a lady musician in downward gaze, at on...
Canvas, Mixed Media, 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
"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
$5,300
"A Family of Means", Surrealist, Blue, Red, Pink, Mixed Media, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Time Passes #1", Surrealist, Portrait, Grey, Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Time Passes #1” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in greys and blacks with red and flesh. From the “Life is Short” series, the painting is a ...
Canvas, 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
"Birth of a Galaxy", Contemporary Portrait, Nude, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Pygmalion and Galatea", Contemporary, White, Grey, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Good Read", Contemporary, Girl, Yellow, Red, Collage, Acrylic 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"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
"Eating and Drinking II", surrealist, red, green, yellow, acrylic painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Eating and Drinking II” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 24 x 30 inches in yellows, reds and greens on a neutral background. In one sense an illustration o...
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,...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,800
"Southern Belle: An Imaginary Portrait", Contemporary, Pastel, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,900
"The Two Dummies", Surrealist, Brown, Tan, Grey, Mixed Media, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
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
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
"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
"Harvest", Contemporary, Figure, Woods, Collage, Acrylic, Mixed Media
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Surprise in the Garden", Surrealist, Collage, Acrylic Painting, 2008
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Surprise in the Garden” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 31 ½ x 28 ¼ inches brightly colored in greens, blues, oranges, rose and russet, and cream. Little ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,100
"Eating and Drinking I", Surrealist, Red, Green, Yellow, Acrylic Painting, 2022
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
$1,000
"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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Young Man with a Device", Contemporary, Mixed Media, Collage, Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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, ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$3,600
"Music Makers", Contemporary Portrait, Blue, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"They Now call it Grooming", Contemporary, Black, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Domestic Dispute", Contemporary, Woman, Man, Blue, Red, Collage, 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...
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
"Old Man Winter", Contemporary, Blue, Grey, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Evening Downpour", Contemporary, Portrait, Woman, Acrylic Painting, 2018
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
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
"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
$4,500
"Any Three-Year-Old Could Paint That", Contemporary, Red, Mixed Media Painting
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Smoker", Contemporary Portrait, Collage, Pencil Drawing
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
Mixed Media, Paper, Pencil
"The Death of Nelson Rockefeller", Portrait, Nude, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"In the Sea", Contemporary, Ocean, Men, Woman, Acrylic, Mixed Media Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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 ...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Music in the Garden", Contemporary, Nude, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic