Martha Susan Baker

Martha Susan Baker
Martha Susan Baker
	Self-portrait ca. 1911
Born	December 25, 1871; Evansville, Indiana, United States
Died	December 21, 1911 (aged 39); Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality	American
Education	School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Known for	Painting

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, lacerated 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

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
"The Sketch Book". 9 August 2018 – via Google Books.
Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Arcadiasystems.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018.
Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, forward by Franz Schulze, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001 pp,12-13
"9th Annual Exhibition : Art Students League" (PDF). Artic.edu. 1903. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
"Martha Susan Baker". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 9 September 2018.
"SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". Siris-artinventories.si.edu.

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[1] Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book, Poughkeepsie NY, 1986, p. 40

[Pettys-2] Petteys, Chris, Dictionary of Women Artists: An international dictionary of women artists born before 1900, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1985 p. 37

[3] "The Sketch Book". 9 August 2018 – via Google Books.

[Nichols-4] Nichols, K. L. "Women's Art at the World's Columbian Fair & Exposition, Chicago 1893". Arcadiasystems.org. Retrieved 28 September 2018.

[5] Gray, Mary Lackritz, A Guide to Chicago’s Murals, forward by Franz Schulze, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2001 pp,12-13

[6] "9th Annual Exhibition : Art Students League" (PDF). Artic.edu. 1903. Retrieved 6 October 2018.

[SAAM-7] "Martha Susan Baker". Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 9 September 2018.

[8] "SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System". Siris-artinventories.si.edu.