William Bliss Baker (November 27, 1859 – November 20, 1886) 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.
Elliott Prize for Drawing (1879) Third Hallgarten Prize (1884)[1][3]
At age 26, Baker was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter when he died at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York. The New York Times said that his death "deprived America of one of its most promising artists."
Baker was born November 27, 1859,[n 1] in New York City, the son of Yale alumnus Benjamin Franklin Baker (b. 1834) and Harriette Luisa Bayeux (married 1857). Harriette was descended from well-to-do Huguenots who moved from France to New York before the American Revolutionary War. Benjamin's father was Ellis Baker (1793–1873), director of the Albany City Bank, Albany Mutual Insurance Company, and People's Line Steamboats, as well as founder of Albany Rural Cemetery and Albany Hospital. He also operated stagecoach lines from Albany to Boston as well as north and west of Albany.[4][5]
William's best-known brother was Captain Guy Ellis Baker (b. 1858), who married Louisa Irene Palma Di Cesnola,[5] daughter of Civil WarMedal of Honor recipient General Louis Palma di Cesnola. His other brothers included Benjamin Henry (b. 1869), George Clinton (b. 1872), and Ashley Bayeux (b. 1877).[4] Baker spent much of his boyhood in the town of Ballston Spa, and his family discovered and purchased the property where he would build his summer studio, "The Castle", on the shores Ballston Lake.[6]
By 1881, Baker had built a summer studio named "The Castle"[5][n 2] on the east side of Ballston Lake in the town of Clifton Park, north of Albany, New York. The studio was designed to have excellent views of the Catskill and Berkshire Mountains, and had excellent natural lighting.[5] The Clifton Park Historic Preservation Commission awarded "The Castle" its Historic Designation plaque,[9] and a "Clifton Park Register of Historic Places" sign also marks the studio property. The home is now a private residence, and it is not open to the public. Baker also had a studio in the Knickerbocker Building in New York City.[10]
Death
Baker's headstone in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York
Baker was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement[11] when he died on November 20, 1886[4] at the age of 26[n 3] of a cold[7] at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York, after sustaining injuries while ice skating.[1][5][12] His final completed work was Meadow Brook.[13] Baker completed over 130 paintings during his career.[11]
A contemporary art critic said that his death was "a distinct loss to American art".[14] The New York Times stated that his death "deprived America of one of its most promising artists."[11]Harper's Weekly stated that "[t]he tidings of this young artist's untimely death ... will be received with sincere regret by all those who take an intelligent interest in the growth of native American art."[15] The New York Post wrote that "[t]he young artist was animated by an intense love of nature, which he manifested from his earliest years, and this, aided by his great industry and energy, was among the chief elements of his success in the line of art he had chosen. His untimely death will be deeply regretted by all who take an intelligent interest in American artistic progress."[15]
Another of his paintings, Morning After the Snow, sold for $5,000 in 1887[11] (the equivalent of about $109,000 in 2006 dollars).[18]Morning and an additional 129 of his paintings sold at that auction for a combined total of nearly $15,000[11] (almost $360,000 in 2010 dollars).[18]
Black and white
Dark Forest, a black and white oil painting completed ca.1880.
While Baker is relatively unknown to the general public,[2] he was well known to art critics of the day[72] and was considered "one of the leading landscape painters of America".[4] He is considered to be part of the Hudson River School.[2]
Baker "rapidly ascended to the head of his profession"[7] by the age of 25.[n 1] His landscapes were variously described as "characteristic[ally] American"[n 4] and "true character studies in which varieties of vegetation and the varying influence of light and weather were identified with amazing skill."[7] One critic in 1883 described the black and white work Morning in the Meadows as "brilliant" though perhaps too detailed.[22]
Regarding his death, The New York Times said it "deprived America of one of its most promising artists."[11]
Notes
^ abTurnure. Paragraph 7. "William Bliss Baker.—One of the prize winners in the National Academy exhibition of 1884, Mr. Baker, has been selected as a worthy exponent of our best landscape art. Though a young man, not yet twenty-five years of age, he has already acquired an enviable reputation in the art world. Born November 27th, 1859, at New York he began his course of study in the National Academy Schools in 1876 and first exhibited at the Academy in 1879. Since then he has had work in the exhibitions of Boston, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Louisville, the Society of American Artists, the Water Color Society and the Salmagundi Club. His principal pictures are Woodland Brook, In the old Pasture, Silence, Woodland Study, Green Pasture—July, April Sunshine, November Gray, April Snow, Brook in Spring."
^The home/studio built by Baker has had multiple names over the years, including "The Castle", "Smith's Castle", and "The Haunted Castle". See Ye Olde Days by Briaddy.
^Regarding his death, some sources state he was in his 27th year (which means he was 26), and others state he was 27 years old. The book Art Year Book 1884: American Art gives his actual birthdate, however, so we know he was 26 when he died just a week shy of his 27th birthday.
^ abTurnure, Arthur B (1884). "Notes: Descriptive and Biographic". Art Year Book 1884: American Art. Boston: New England Institute. End of paragraph 2. Retrieved November 29, 2011. The Hallgarten prizes of three hundred, two hundred and one hundred dollars annually for the best three pictures in oil colors shown in the exhibition were awarded respectively to Mr. C. Y. Turner for his large and important figure subject, The Courtship of Miles Standish, to Mr. Louis Moeller for his excellently painted single figure with accessories, entitled Puzzled, and to Mr. William Bliss Baker for his characteristic American landscape, A Woodland Brook.
References
^ abcdefgBentley, Edward P. . Archived from the original on May 29, 2013. Retrieved April 20, 2007.
^ abcJones, pp.1-9, 16-17, "Introduction—The Hudson River School"
^"Monthly Record of American Art". The Magazine of Art: xxii. "He was a pupil of the New York National Academy of Design, where he took the Elliott prize in 1879, and in 1885 he won the Hallgarten prize with his landscape, 'The Woodland Brook.'"
^. Town of Clifton Park - Historic Preservation Commission. Archived from the original on September 28, 2011. Retrieved June 4, 2011. Note: Listed as #17.
^Flynn, Andy (July 4, 2008). (PDF). Lake Placid News. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzaaabacadaeafagahaiajakalamanaoapaqarasatauavaw"Selling works of art: Pictures of Baker, Sprague's collection, and the Baker Statues". The New York Times. March 18, 1887. p. 5. ...William Bliss Baker, the lately deceased landscape painter, whose death by accident at the early age of 27 deprived America of one of its most promising artists...
^"Died". The New York Times. November 22, 1886. p. 5. BAKER.—At Hoosic Falls, N.Y., Nov. 20, in the 27th year of his age, William Bliss Baker, artist, late of this city, son of Col. B.F. Baker. Funeral at St. Mark's Church, Hoosic Falls, Tuesday, 23rd inst., at 12:30.
^ ab"Monthly Record of American Art". The Magazine of Art. London, Paris, New York, and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, Limited: xxiv. 1887. The William Bliss Baker collection was sold, March 17th. "Morning After the Snow" brought $5,000; "Snow Scene," $1,100; "Solitude," sold for $1,100; "Under the Appletree," $760; and the last work of the artist, "Meadow Brook," sold for $614.
^. Blouin Art Sales Index. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^The Cooley Gallery. "William Bliss Baker (1859 - 1886) Dark Forest, circa 1880" (PDF). (PDF) from the original on November 25, 2019. Retrieved November 25, 2019.
^ abE. R. (December 8, 1883). "Two Art Exhibitions in New York". The American: A National Weekly Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, Art and Finance. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The American Company, Limited. VII (174). p.9 third paragraph near the end. Mr. William Bliss Baker's "Morning in the Meadows" is a brilliant landscape, but with a little more elaboration of detail than is appropriate to black-and-white work.
^. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 22, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^. Blouin Art Sales Index. Archived from the original on February 22, 2018. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
^(PDF). Bonaventure: The Magazine of St. Bonaventure University. Vol. 1, no. 2. Office of Marketing and Communication, St. Bonaventure University. June 2009. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 20, 2016. Retrieved February 21, 2018.
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American Art Association (March 11, 1887). The Works of Wm. Bliss Baker, Dec'd: Finished Pictures and Studies(PDF). Messrs. Ortgies & Company., Auctioneers. Retrieved March 24, 2022.
Appleton's Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1886. New York, New York, United States: D. Appleton and Company. 1887.
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Godel, Howard; Baumgartner, Katherine W.; Quick, Thomas, eds. (2005). An Alluring Path III. New York, New York, United States: Godel & Co. Fine Art. LCCN 2003110778.
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William Bliss Baker November 27 1859 November 20 1886 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 William Bliss BakerBaker ca 1880 1886BornNovember 27 1859New York CityDiedNovember 20 1886 1886 11 20 aged 26 Hoosick Falls New YorkNationalityAmericanEducationM F H de HaasAlbert Bierstadt 1 Known forPaintingNotable workFallen MonarchsMorning After the SnowMovementHudson River School 2 RealismAwardsElliott Prize for Drawing 1879 Third Hallgarten Prize 1884 1 3 At age 26 Baker was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter when he died at his father s house at Hoosick Falls New York The New York Times said that his death deprived America of one of its most promising artists Contents 1 Biography 1 1 Early life and family 1 2 Study and career 1 3 Death 2 Works 2 1 Black and white 2 2 Color 3 Reception and legacy 4 Notes 5 References 6 Works cited 7 External linksBiography EditEarly life and family Edit Baker was born November 27 1859 n 1 in New York City the son of Yale alumnus Benjamin Franklin Baker b 1834 and Harriette Luisa Bayeux married 1857 Harriette was descended from well to do Huguenots who moved from France to New York before the American Revolutionary War Benjamin s father was Ellis Baker 1793 1873 director of the Albany City Bank Albany Mutual Insurance Company and People s Line Steamboats as well as founder of Albany Rural Cemetery and Albany Hospital He also operated stagecoach lines from Albany to Boston as well as north and west of Albany 4 5 Benjamin served during the American Civil War as a colonel in the 43rd Regiment of the New York State Volunteers Later he commanded the Light Division of Sixth Corps part of the Army of the Potomac as a Brevet Brigadier General He was noted for his bravery during the charge at Marye s Heights during the Battle of Fredericksburg After the war he joined the Loyal Legion then served as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1880 to 1882 4 William s best known brother was Captain Guy Ellis Baker b 1858 who married Louisa Irene Palma Di Cesnola 5 daughter of Civil War Medal of Honor recipient General Louis Palma di Cesnola His other brothers included Benjamin Henry b 1869 George Clinton b 1872 and Ashley Bayeux b 1877 4 Baker spent much of his boyhood in the town of Ballston Spa and his family discovered and purchased the property where he would build his summer studio The Castle on the shores Ballston Lake 6 Study and career Edit For four years beginning in 1876 Baker studied at the National Academy of Design where he studied with Albert Bierstadt and Mauritz F H de Haas 1 3 7 In 1879 he won the Elliott prize during his first exhibit 3 In 1885 Baker won the Hallgarten Prize for his Woodland Brook 8 By 1881 Baker had built a summer studio named The Castle 5 n 2 on the east side of Ballston Lake in the town of Clifton Park north of Albany New York The studio was designed to have excellent views of the Catskill and Berkshire Mountains and had excellent natural lighting 5 The Clifton Park Historic Preservation Commission awarded The Castle its Historic Designation plaque 9 and a Clifton Park Register of Historic Places sign also marks the studio property The home is now a private residence and it is not open to the public Baker also had a studio in the Knickerbocker Building in New York City 10 Death Edit Baker s headstone in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands New York Baker was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement 11 when he died on November 20 1886 4 at the age of 26 n 3 of a cold 7 at his father s house at Hoosick Falls New York after sustaining injuries while ice skating 1 5 12 His final completed work was Meadow Brook 13 Baker completed over 130 paintings during his career 11 A contemporary art critic said that his death was a distinct loss to American art 14 The New York Times stated that his death deprived America of one of its most promising artists 11 Harper s Weekly stated that t he tidings of this young artist s untimely death will be received with sincere regret by all those who take an intelligent interest in the growth of native American art 15 The New York Post wrote that t he young artist was animated by an intense love of nature which he manifested from his earliest years and this aided by his great industry and energy was among the chief elements of his success in the line of art he had chosen His untimely death will be deeply regretted by all who take an intelligent interest in American artistic progress 15 He is buried in a family plot in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands New York see image right 6 Works Edit Fallen Monarchs 1886 considered Baker s masterpiece Baker was awarded the 1884 Third Hallgarten Prize by the National Academy of Design for A Woodland Brook n 4 Fallen Monarchs considered to be Baker s masterpiece 1 was painted in 1886 in the Ballston Lake area The original is owned by Brigham Young University in Provo Utah where it hangs in the BYU Museum of Art 16 A small copy of this painting hangs in the public library in the town of Ballston His 1883 painting A Pleasant Day at Lake George hangs in the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake New York 17 Another of his paintings Morning After the Snow sold for 5 000 in 1887 11 the equivalent of about 109 000 in 2006 dollars 18 Morning and an additional 129 of his paintings sold at that auction for a combined total of nearly 15 000 11 almost 360 000 in 2010 dollars 18 Black and white Edit Dark Forest a black and white oil painting completed ca 1880 Listed alphabetically by title The Brook date unknown 1 19 Cattle Grazing Near a Stream Through the Pasture date unknown 20 Dark Forest ca 1880 24 x 20 oil on canvas 19 21 Morning in the Meadows ca 1883 19 22 Snow Scene date unknown 12 x 9 inches 23 Wood Interior date unknown 8 x 11 inches 24 Wood Interior date unknown 17 5 x 21 5 inches 25 Color Edit 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 unknown Woodland Scene 1885 Date known Listed alphabetically by year Current location listed if known River View 1877 26 Deep in the Woods 1880 27 Hiding in the Haycocks 1881 housed in the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art 28 Landscape Grez ca 1882 housed as part of the Horace C Henry Collection at the Henry Art Gallery at University of Washington 29 New York Harbour 1883 30 A Pleasant Day at Lake George 1883 housed in the Adirondack Experience The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake Blue Mountain Lake New York 31 Silence 1883 24 x 30 inches 32 33 View of New York Harbor with Brooklyn Bridge in the Distance 1883 11 October Morning 1884 34 First Fall of Snow 1884 35 First Snow of Winter 1884 11 Summer Evening ca 1884 36 Woodland Brook ca 1884 1885 housed at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal 37 38 Lake Luzerne ca 1885 11 Morning After the Snow 1885 57 x 39 inches housed in the Regina A Quick Center for the Arts St Bonaventure University 39 40 Woodland Scene 1885 38 x 50 inches housed at the Avery Galleries Bryn Mawr Pennsylvania 11 Fallen Monarchs 1886 housed in the Museum of Art at Brigham Young University 1 41 Under the Apple Trees 1886 36 x 24 inches 11 42 Meadow Brook ca 1886 21 x 16 inches his last completed work 13 43 Date unknown Listed alphabetically by title Apple Blossoms 12 x 8 inches 44 Apple Blossoms 20 x 12 inches 25 Apple Trees 12 x 20 inches 45 April Day 23 5 x 14 inches 11 23 April Snow 36 x 20 inches 11 40 Autumn 11 5 x 9 5 inches 46 Autumn Forest Landscape 47 Autumn in Woods 11 Autumn Leaves 12 x 20 inches 48 Autumn Study 20x 12 inches 49 Autumn Trees by Stream 50 Autumn Woods 22 x 13 inches 51 Autumn Woods 20 5 x 12 inches 48 Autumn Woods 12 5 x 8 5 inches 52 Autumn Woods 22 x 30 inches 11 53 Banks of Schoharie 19 5 x 18 5 inches 54 Banks of the Schoharie 14 x 10 inches 55 Bed of a Brook 12 x 19 inches 11 56 Bed of Brook 12 x 19 inches 57 Bed of Brook Morse Mountain Adirondacks 12 x 17 5 inches 58 Branches of Elm 21 x 29 inches 11 59 Brook and Pasture 20x 12 inches 49 Brook and Woods 12 x 20 inches 25 Catskill Clove 12 x 10 inches 52 Church Beyond a Meadow 11 Clump of Trees 11 5 x 19 5 inches 60 Clover Field 12 5 x 19 inches 11 59 A Cool Retreat 29 x 22 inches 11 42 Corn Fields and Pasture 12 x 9 5 inches 11 46 Corn Stalks 12 x 20 inches 61 Cows Watering in a Pond 62 Daisies 12 x 20 inches 60 Dead Leaves 12 5 x 19 5 inches 11 51 Dried Up 12 x 9 5 inches 11 23 Early Autumn 20 x 28 inches 11 24 Edge of the Creek 19 x 11 5 inches 23 Edge of the Woods 17 x 12 inches 11 59 An Elm 12 x 20 inches 45 Fallen A Study 22 5 x 13 5 inches 11 43 A Forest Glade 12 5 x 10 inches 11 42 Forest Road 12 x 20 inches 43 Forest Sunshine 12 5 x 9 inches 11 46 Fort Lee Hudson River size unknown inches 63 Gathering Chestnuts 12 x 19 5 inches 54 Golden Rod 12 x 20 inches 43 Harvest Study 12 x 8 5 inches 55 Harvest Time 12 5 x 9 5 inches 64 Haycocks 11 5 x 9 inches 55 A Haze 11 5 x 8 inches 11 56 In the Hayfield 12 x 9 inches 64 In the Old Pasture 11 June 28 x 14 inches 45 June Pastures 12 x 19 5 inches 11 46 June Sunshine 22 5 x 15 5 inches 11 59 Landscape 14 x 22 inches 24 Landscape 19 5 x 13 5 inches 58 Landscape 22 5 x 13 inches 40 Landscape with Cattle 11 Lowlands 12 x 7 inches 52 Marine 65 Meadow and Woodland 12 x 10 inches 66 Mossy Stumps 12 x 10 inches 44 Mountain Top 20 x 13 inches 58 New York Harbor City Front 19 x 7 inches 63 Old Mill Pond 12 x 20 inches 56 Opening in Woods 16 x 10 inches 61 The Old Orchard 13 5 x 22 5 inches 11 51 Old Stump 12 x 9 5 inches 67 Orchard in June 12 x 16 inches 11 23 Outlet of a Lake 19x 13 inches 49 Pasture 20 x 12 inches 61 Pasture 18 x 14 inches 59 Pasture 12 x 10 inches 58 Pasture 12 5 x 10 inches 40 Pool and Meadow 12 x 10 inches 44 Pool and Upland 12 x 20 inches 63 Quiet Pond 68 A Quiet Pond Connecticut 3 Quiet Winter Afternoon 69 The Roadside 20 x 12 inches 48 Rock Study North Shore Lake Ontario 18 x 12 inches 44 Rocky Pool 10 x 13 inches 63 Rough Pasture 12 x 9 inches 57 Schoharie Creek 19 75 x 14 inches 11 46 Second Growth Timber 12 5 x 9 5 inches 11 53 The Sentinel 12 x 20 inches 25 Shadows in a Pool 11 Shadows in the Pool 12 x 10 inches 42 Shady Pool 12 x 19 inches 11 40 Sheep Pasture 13 x 10 5 inches 55 Snarled Roots 18 x 11 inches 54 Snow 6 5 x 10 5 inches 67 Snow Scene 42 x 30 inches 11 48 Solitude 50 x 38 inches 11 24 Spring Pasture 12 5 x 9 25 inches 11 42 Standing Grass 12 x 10 inches 64 Still Pool in the Woods 19 5 x 12 inches 11 43 Study of Autumn Leaves 12 x 10 inches 66 Study of Ferns 12 x 10 inches 57 Study of Ferns 2 12 x 10 inches 64 Study of Forest 12 x 20 inches 45 Study of Rocks and Fallen Timber 18 x 12 inches 56 Study of Snow 14 x 20 inches 11 53 Study of Tree 11 5 x 19 5 inches 60 Study of Trees 11 5 x 18 inches 56 Study of Trees 5 5 x 12 5 inches 66 Study of Woods 10 5 x 13 inches 63 Summer Afternoon 70 Summer Pasture 13 x 6 5 inches 66 Summer Woodland 12 x 10 inches 64 Sunlight in the Woods 14 x 11 5 inches 57 Sunlit Brook 12 x 19 inches 61 Sunlit Pastures 15 x 11 inches 51 Sunny Brook 19 5 x 12 inches 11 48 Sunrise on New York Harbor 11 Sunset 12 5 x 9 inches 52 Surf 22x 15 inches 49 Surf 22 5 x 14 inches 55 Timber Belt 20 x 12 inches 51 Tree Top 12 x 20 inches 54 Tree Trunks 12 x 20 inches 45 Tree Trunks 14 x 12 inches 52 Trees and Meadow 12 x 10 inches 57 Under the Hill 12 x 9 inches 44 Valley of Hudson from Catskills 12 x 10 inches 67 Water Fall 12 x 20 inches 63 Winter Forest 20 x 12 inches 54 Winter Twilight 12 x 9 inches 67 Wood Interior 22 x 13 5 inches 11 60 Wood Interior 21 x 15 5 inches 11 53 Wood Interior 22 x 30 inches 11 24 Wood Interior 21 x 29 inches 58 Wood Opening 11 x 19 5 inches 60 Wooded Glade 71 Woodland Shade 12 5 x 10 inches 53 Woodland Study 12 5 x 8 5 inches 66 Woods in June 12 x 10 inches 67 Young Cattle 15 5 x 12 inches 61 Young Timber 12 x 10 inches 25 Reception and legacy EditWhile Baker is relatively unknown to the general public 2 he was well known to art critics of the day 72 and was considered one of the leading landscape painters of America 4 He is considered to be part of the Hudson River School 2 Baker rapidly ascended to the head of his profession 7 by the age of 25 n 1 His landscapes were variously described as characteristic ally American n 4 and true character studies in which varieties of vegetation and the varying influence of light and weather were identified with amazing skill 7 One critic in 1883 described the black and white work Morning in the Meadows as brilliant though perhaps too detailed 22 Regarding his death The New York Times said it deprived America of one of its most promising artists 11 Notes Edit a b Turnure Paragraph 7 William Bliss Baker One of the prize winners in the National Academy exhibition of 1884 Mr Baker has been selected as a worthy exponent of our best landscape art Though a young man not yet twenty five years of age he has already acquired an enviable reputation in the art world Born November 27th 1859 at New York he began his course of study in the National Academy Schools in 1876 and first exhibited at the Academy in 1879 Since then he has had work in the exhibitions of Boston Philadelphia Cincinnati Louisville the Society of American Artists the Water Color Society and the Salmagundi Club His principal pictures are Woodland Brook In the old Pasture Silence Woodland Study Green Pasture July April Sunshine November Gray April Snow Brook in Spring The home studio built by Baker has had multiple names over the years including The Castle Smith s Castle and The Haunted Castle See Ye Olde Days by Briaddy Regarding his death some sources state he was in his 27th year which means he was 26 and others state he was 27 years old The book Art Year Book 1884 American Art gives his actual birthdate however so we know he was 26 when he died just a week shy of his 27th birthday a b Turnure Arthur B 1884 Notes Descriptive and Biographic Art Year Book 1884 American Art Boston New England Institute End of paragraph 2 Retrieved November 29 2011 The Hallgarten prizes of three hundred two hundred and one hundred dollars annually for the best three pictures in oil colors shown in the exhibition were awarded respectively to Mr C Y Turner for his large and important figure subject The Courtship of Miles Standish to Mr Louis Moeller for his excellently painted single figure with accessories entitled Puzzled and to Mr William Bliss Baker for his characteristic American landscape A Woodland Brook References Edit a b c d e f g Bentley Edward P BAKER WILLIAM BLISS American 1859 1886 Archived from the original on May 29 2013 Retrieved April 20 2007 a b c Jones pp 1 9 16 17 Introduction The Hudson River School a b c d Godel et al pp 34 35 a b c d e American Ancestry pp 93 94 a b c d e Briaddy pp 89 92 The Railroads a b Reynolds Rick November 26 2010 History Lesson The Baker Brothers made their home in Ballston The Saratogian Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d Clarke 1891 p 8 Monthly Record of American Art The Magazine of Art xxii He was a pupil of the New York National Academy of Design where he took the Elliott prize in 1879 and in 1885 he won the Hallgarten prize with his landscape The Woodland Brook Register of Historic Places page 2 Town of Clifton Park Historic Preservation Commission Archived from the original on September 28 2011 Retrieved June 4 2011 Note Listed as 17 Flynn Andy July 4 2008 A Pleasant Day at Lake George PDF Lake Placid News p 14 Archived from the original PDF on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at au av aw Selling works of art Pictures of Baker Sprague s collection and the Baker Statues The New York Times March 18 1887 p 5 William Bliss Baker the lately deceased landscape painter whose death by accident at the early age of 27 deprived America of one of its most promising artists Died The New York Times November 22 1886 p 5 BAKER At Hoosic Falls N Y Nov 20 in the 27th year of his age William Bliss Baker artist late of this city son of Col B F Baker Funeral at St Mark s Church Hoosic Falls Tuesday 23rd inst at 12 30 a b Monthly Record of American Art The Magazine of Art London Paris New York and Melbourne Cassell and Company Limited xxiv 1887 The William Bliss Baker collection was sold March 17th Morning After the Snow brought 5 000 Snow Scene 1 100 Solitude sold for 1 100 Under the Appletree 760 and the last work of the artist Meadow Brook sold for 614 Art Notes The Art Review 1 2 19 December 1886 a b American Art Association pp 5 6 Works of Art fallen monarchs Brigham Young University Museum of Art Archived from the original on August 25 2013 Retrieved August 25 2013 A Pleasant Day At Lake George Adirondack Museum Archived from the original on August 25 2013 Retrieved August 25 2013 a b Friedman S Morgan The Inflation Calculator Archived from the original on July 18 2011 Retrieved April 20 2007 a b c Appleton s Annual p 664 Cattle Grazing Near a Stream Through the Pasture by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 The Cooley Gallery William Bliss Baker 1859 1886 Dark Forest circa 1880 PDF Archived PDF from the original on November 25 2019 Retrieved November 25 2019 a b E R December 8 1883 Two Art Exhibitions in New York The American A National Weekly Journal of Politics Literature Science Art and Finance Philadelphia Pennsylvania The American Company Limited VII 174 p 9 third paragraph near the end Mr William Bliss Baker s Morning in the Meadows is a brilliant landscape but with a little more elaboration of detail than is appropriate to black and white work a b c d e American Art Association p 16 a b c d e American Art Association p 27 a b c d e American Art Association p 30 River View by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Deep in the Woods by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Hiding in the Haycocks 1881 Memphis Brooks Museum of Art Archived from the original on February 20 2018 Retrieved February 19 2018 Collections Search Henry Art University of Washington Retrieved July 17 2010 New York Harbour by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 A Pleasant Day at Lake George By William Bliss Baker Adirondack Experience Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Kirby Coffin p 18 Silence by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 October Morning by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 First Fall of Snow by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Sweeney p 100 The R B Angus Art Collection Paintings Watercolours and Drawings Archived from the original PDF on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Woodland Brook by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Quick Center for the Arts collection now available as reproductions PDF Bonaventure The Magazine of St Bonaventure University Vol 1 no 2 Office of Marketing and Communication St Bonaventure University June 2009 p 8 Archived from the original PDF on August 20 2016 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e American Art Association p 32 Up Close Fallen Monarchs by William Bliss Baker Museum of Art Brigham Young University Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e American Art Association p 15 a b c d e American Art Association p 29 a b c d e American Art Association p 22 a b c d e American Art Association p 8 a b c d e American Art Association p 14 Autumn Forest Landscape by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e American Art Association p 17 a b c d American Art Association p 7 Autumn Trees by Stream by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e American Art Association p 11 a b c d e American Art Association p 21 a b c d e American Art Association p 25 a b c d e American Art Association p 9 a b c d e American Art Association p 19 a b c d e American Art Association p 13 a b c d e American Art Association p 18 a b c d e American Art Association p 31 a b c d e American Art Association p 26 a b c d e American Art Association p 10 a b c d e American Art Association p 12 Cows Watering in a Pond by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e f American Art Association p 28 a b c d e American Art Association p 23 Marine by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 a b c d e American Art Association p 24 a b c d e American Art Association p 20 Quiet Pond by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Quiet Winter Afternoon by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Summer Afternoon by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Wooded Glade by William Bliss Baker Blouin Art Sales Index Archived from the original on February 22 2018 Retrieved February 21 2018 Kirby Coffin p 10 Introduction Works cited EditAmerican Ancestry Giving the Name and Descent in the Male Line of Americans Whose Ancestors Settled in the United States Previous to the Declaration of Independence A D 1776 Albany New York United States Joel Munsell s Sons 1891 American Art Association March 11 1887 The Works of Wm Bliss Baker Dec d Finished Pictures and Studies PDF Messrs Ortgies amp Company Auctioneers Retrieved March 24 2022 Appleton s Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1886 New York New York United States D Appleton and Company 1887 Briaddy Katherine Q 1974 Ye Olde Days A History of Burnt Hills Ballston Lake Ballston Spa New York Journal Press Clarke Thomas Benedict 1891 Catalogue of the Thomas B Clarke collection of American pictures exhibition 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