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Ernie Morton (Ernest) Baber

Ernie Morton (Ernest) Baber (Born 1949) is active/lives in California, New Mexico, Colorado / India, France.  Ernie Baber is known for Trompe still life painting, etching.

Each painting by Ernest Baber is intended to be a rich collection of colors, textures and surfaces.  His work, usually with a Southwestern motif and highly realistic, focuses sharply on contrasts and composition.  His style is strongly reminiscent of the Dutch Masters, and he thinks of his subjects as "what Vermeer might pick if he were alive today." With still life that "resonates with history and quality," his career as an oil painter is the culmination of a long process of studying art and its applications.

Baber was born in Denver, Colorado, to a family of itinerant musicians.  Showing early talent for art, he attended Western State College with the intention of becoming an art teacher.  He soon realized that the curriculum emphasizing teaching rather than painting and drawing was personally inhibiting.  Then, after a stint in Vietnam as a Marine, he enrolled in the Colorado Institute of Art in Denver.  But turning to fine art instead of commercial art, he went to New York   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 4344 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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