Martha Susan Baker Explained
Martha Susan Baker (December 25, 1871 – December 21, 1911) was an American painter, muralist and teacher born in Evansville, Indiana, United States.
Early life
Baker studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago[1] where she later taught.[2]
Career
She wrote and illustrated numerous articles for The Sketch Book: A magazine Devoted to the Fine Arts,[2] published in Chicago.[3]
Baker exhibited her work at the Illinois building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.[4]
Baker painted one in a series of eight murals, begun in 1900, that were located on the tenth floor of the Fine Arts Building, located at 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.[5]
In 1903, she appeared on the “Jury of Selection” for the Annual exhibition of the Art Students League of Chicago.[6]
Baker died in Chicago in 1911.[7]
Works
referenced at[8] unless otherwise noted.
- Carl Van Vechten, portrait, Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut
- Dr. Martin Henry Fischer, portrait, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio
- Mrs. Martin Henry Fischer, Cincinnati Art Museum
- Girl’s head, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
- Miss Ethel Coe, portrait, Cleveland Museum of Art
- Twilight No. 2 1898, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
- Mrs. Otto Buehrmann, portrait, Chicago Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois
- Elizabeth Humphrey, portrait, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
- In an Old Gown, Union League Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- Carl Van Vechten, portrait, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Notes and References
- Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 40
- Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 37
- Web site: The Sketch Book. 9 August 2018. Google Books. Jensen. Jens.
- Web site: Nichols . K. L. . Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893. Arcadiasystems.org. 28 September 2018.
- Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, foreword by Franz Schulze, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001 pp,12-13
- Web site: 9th Annual Exhibition : Art Students League. 1903. Artic.edu. 6 October 2018.
- Web site: Martha Susan Baker . Smithsonian American Art Museum . 9 September 2018 . en.
- Web site: SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Siris-artinventories.si.edu.
