John Baker Mixed Media
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
"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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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...
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2010s Contemporary John Baker Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Shotgun Wedding", portrait, bride, green, white, 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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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Acrylic, Mixed Media, Canvas
"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 Mixed Media
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"A Meeting in Rome I", contemporary, acrylic, collage, mixed media, painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, 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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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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 Mixed Media
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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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