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George Herbert Baker

Birth: 2/14/1878 Muncie, IN Death: 1943 Married:  Known For: landscapes Associations: Charter member Richmond Palette club Awards:  Howard Spaulding Jr. prize and the Hoosier Salon, Nye Prize, Muncie Prize 1910 Facts The family moved to Richmond Indiana when George was a young boy Work at Gaar-Scott company painting scenes on farm equipment Studied under John Elwood Bundy in addition to the Boothbay Art School in Maine and the Cincinnati Art Academy Considered at the time to be one of the best landscape painters in Indiana Painted in and around the New England coast and in the mountains Worked in Pastels later in his career Sources: 1. Waynet.org - http://www.waynet.org/ency/artist/default.htm