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|  Frederic Van Vliet Baker 11/16/1876 - 12/19/1964
He graduated from the Pratt Institute in 1895 and studied art the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the Colarossi Academy in Paris. Baker served as a teacher for life drawing, painting and composition at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and the Art Center School in New York. He lived in Paris as well as New York City, exhibiting at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1903 to 1904, also in Ghent, Vienna, and New York, where he had a solo show in 1944 at the Sperling Gallery. He was married to Maude Lillian Forsbrey, who may be the subject of his painting "Young Maiden."
Source:
Peter Hastings Falk (ed.), Who Was Who in American Art
Treadway/Toomey Galleries
Additional information provided in May of 2006 by Dan Vancil.
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