David Graeme Baker

Born in Cape Town, South Africa, David Baker has taught portrait painting at the Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia, as well as exhibited his paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Butler Institute of American Art, and the Phillips Mill Annual Exhibition in New Hope, Pennsylvania, from which he took the Richard Hughes Award in 1998.

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David Baker graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, with a B.A. in Fine Arts. In 1991, he entered the Certificate Program at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and by graduation in 1995 he had won the Daniel Garber Drawing Prize and the Fellowship Purchase Prize.He was part of the Director’s Invitational at More Gallery in Philadelphia, and has had solo exhibitions at the Artists’ House Gallery in Philadelphia and the William Baczek Gallery in Northampton, Massachusetts. In 2003, he was selected for inclusion in the exhibition “Representing Representation,” which opened at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, and later that year he took part in Vose Galleries’ monumental group exhibition, Realism Now: Traditions & Departures, Mentors and Protégés, in which this still life was shown. Baker’s work is in numerous private collections and in the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, the United States Mint, and Lutece Restaurant in New York. Mr. Baker currently resides in Maine.