William Bliss Baker
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican artist (1859-1886)
William Bliss Baker was an American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied with Bierstadt and de Haas.
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Baker's headstone in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York
Fallen Monarchs (1886), considered Baker's masterpiece.
Dark Forest, a black and white oil painting completed ca.1880.
Hiding in the Haycocks, 1881
Landscape: Grez, ca. 1882
Engraving of Silence, 1883 (from Art of the World, Volume 6 (1893))
Shadows in a Pool, date unknownArtists from United States 6
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William Bliss Baker was an American artist who began painting just as the Hudson River School was winding down. Baker began his studies in 1876 at the National Academy of Design, where he studied with Bierstadt and de Haas. He later maintained studios in Clifton Park, New York, and New York City, where he painted in oils and watercolors. He completed more than 130 paintings, including several in black and white.
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