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- George Herbert Baker was born in Muncie, Indiana, and moved
to Richmond, Indiana, as a teen-ager. He studied with and became
a painting companion of John Elwood Bundy, the leading light
of the Richmond school and one of Indiana's greatest artists.
He was a charter member of the Richmond Palette Club. As in other
areas of the region, the Richmond school came to showcase a melding
of Tonalism and Impressionism. The painting offered here is a
prime example.
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- The artist studied at the Cincinnati Art Academy and at the
Boothbay Art School in Maine. He was noted for his Indiana landscapes
and for his New England marine scenes. He exhibited in New York,
Chicago and Detroit, as well as in the regional art centers of
Cincinnati and Indianapolis.
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- Baker taught such Hoosier artists as Harry Townsend, Zeb
E. Pottenger, Lawrence McConaha and Howard Leigh, and he was
a visiting teacher at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, in the
1920s.
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- Baker exhibited at the Hoosier Salon between 1925 and 1932.
He won prizes in those shows and in Muncie in 1910 and in Richmond
in 1910, 1915 and 1930. His works are in the Earlham College
Permanent Collection, the Richmond Art Museum Collection, the
Morrisson-Reeves Library Collection in Richmond and the Wayne
County (Indiana) Historical Museum Collection, among many others.
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