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.
"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
"Maternal Love", Surrealist, Portrait, Pink, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, 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
$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
"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
"Layers of the Self", Surrealist, Portrait, Man, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Layers of the Self” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 32 x 20 inches in greys, blacks and whites, with flesh tones. Although quite young, the gentleman has ...
Canvas, 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
"Studio Sketch of Ella", Surrealist, Cream, Brown, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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
"Ethnic Meld #3", Surrealist, Portrait, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,700
"Cabinet Secretary in his Office", Surrealist, Portrait, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Cabinet Secretary in his Office” is an acrylic painting on canvas 36 x 42 inches in pinks, blues, reds, whites and greys. The secretary’s energies are depicted as both ...
Canvas, 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
"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
"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 x 16 inches in maroon, flesh tones and blacks. Bedecked with official awards from his superiors, but also wearing a bird badge...
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
"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...
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
"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
$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
$1,500
"The Judge and his Laws", Surrealist, Portrait, Reds, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, 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
"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
$1,200
"The Book Mark", Surrealist, Portrait, Woman, Maroon, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
$480Sale Price|20% Off
"Studio Sketch of Valerie", Surrealist, Brown, Pink, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Valerie” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 18 x 14 inches in pinks, greys and browns. When Valerie visited my studio she at first stayed ve...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Studio Sketch of Dmitri", Surrealist, Tan, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
John Baker’s “Studio Sketch of Dmitri” is an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in tans, greys, blues and whites. When he arrived at the studio Dmitri was immedia...
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
"AI Takes Over", Surrealist Portrait, Brown, Black, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
"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
$1,400
"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...
Canvas, 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
"Eating at the Airline Diner", Surrealist, Red, Blue, Mixed Media 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...
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
"Dressing the Sewing Dummy", Surrealist, Red, Blue, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
"Regression and Development", Surrealist, Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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 ...
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
"The Greatest Possible Success", Portrait, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, 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
$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
"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
$1,500
"Maidenhood and Expectancy: Two Studio Sketches of Felicia", Surrealist, Acrylic
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
Canvas, Acrylic
"A Broad Grin", Surrealist, Portrait, Man, Collage, Acrylic Painting
By John Baker
Located in Franklin, MA
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...
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
$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
$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
$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
"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
$1,400
"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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,320Sale Price|20% Off
"Young Man with a Bouquet of his own Thoughts", Red, Collage, Acrylic Painting
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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,300
"Down he Goes V", Contemporary Portrait, Male, Grey, Collage, Acrylic 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...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic