Ralph Baker, California Landscape with Farm, Circa 1950

Description

This artwork :California Landscape with Farm" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted California artist Ralph Baker, 1908-1976. It is signed … more This artwork :California Landscape with Farm" c.1950 is a watercolor by noted California artist Ralph Baker, 1908-1976. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork size is 22 x 28 inches, framed size is 30.15 x 36.5 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black frame, with off white matting and gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition.

About the artist:

Born in Deckard, Tennessee, Ralph Baker became an illustrator whose watercolors were used in magazines and pictorial labels. He also did fine art oil and watercolor painting of landscapes, mining camps, city scenes and especially loved the gold mining country and the High Sierras.
He moved to Red Bluff, California in 1921, and shortly after that, settled in San Francisco where he was a student of Maurice Logan and attended the Brino School of Lithography. For 45 years, he worked as an artist for the Stecher-Traung-Schmidt Lithograph Company in San Francisco, and retired to Sonora where he did some art teaching.
Memberships included the Society of Western Artists, and the San Leandro Art Association. Ralph Baker died in San Francisco in 1976. The work of Ralph Baker is held in numerous collections in California and nationwide. less