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Ralph Baker

Ralph Baker (1908 - 1976) was active/lived in California, Tennessee.  Ralph Baker is known for Landscape painting, printmaking, illustration.

Born in Deckard, Tennessee, Ralph Baker became an illustrator whose watercolors were used in magazines and pictorial labels. He also did fine art oil and watercolor painting of landscapes, mining camps, city scenes and especially loved the gold mining country and the High Sierras.

He moved to Red Bluff, California in 1921, and shortly after that, settled in San Francisco where he was a student of Maurice Logan and attended the Brino School of Lithography. For 45 years, he worked as a commercial artist for the Stecher-Traung-Schmidt Lithograph Company in San Francisco, and retired to Sonora where he did some art teaching.

Memberships included the Society of Western Artists, and the San Leandro Art Association.

Source:
Gordon McClelland and Jay Last, "California Watercolors 1850-1970"
Edan Hughes, "Artists in California, 1786-1940"   ...  [Displaying 868 of 1685 characters.]  Artist bio

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Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Ralph Baker available:    Marjorie Stevens,  Mary Suehanna Darter Coleman,  Harold Gretzner,  Justin Faivre,  George Gibson,  Joseph Frey,  Alexander Nepote,  Darwin William Duncan,  Jade Fon,  William Sandorhaji Darling,  George Booth Root Post,  Karl Schmidt,  Carl Christian Dahlgren,  Joane Cromwell,  Richard DeTreville,  Francis "Frank" Cutting,  Maurice George Logan,  Clyde (Victor Clyde) Forsythe,  Ben Abril,  George Sanders Bickerstaff,  Carl Jonnevold,  Frank William Cuprien,  Ralph William Holmes,  Frank Moore



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Keywords and Quick Facts for Ralph Baker


   Keywords 
Art Method
  • Advertising Art
  • Easel Painting
  • Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
  • Illustration, Illustrator
Art MediaArt StyleArt Subject
  • Architecture Trained: Design and Drawing
  • Figure, Figurative Humans
  • Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
  • Landscape, Nature, Rural Scene
  • Mining Scenes, Mining Towns, Miners
  • Mountain Views, Mountainscapes
  • Regionalism, Local Scene
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
  • California Before 1940
Art Teacher
  • Maurice Logan
Art School
  • California College of Arts and Crafts, Student
  • California School of Design, Mark Hopkins Institute, Student
Chronology
  • Early 20th Century Before 1950
  • Late 20th Century After 1950
Added Description
  • Commercial Art and Design

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