Anna P. Baker

Who was Anna P. Baker?

Anna P. Baker was a Canadian visual artist born in London, Ontario, Canada. She graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1950. She received a BFA and a MFA from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1954, and went on to teach art at Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio for three years.

She exhibited frequently in her home town of London, Ontario, and for many years at the 57th St. Art Fair in Chicago, and in many cities from Los Angeles to New York. In 1956 she won the top painting award in the Chicago Art Institutes 59th art annual.

Anna remained a Canadian citizen but for the last twenty nine years of her life, she lived in the village of Barton, Vermont where she opted to bow out of the world of dealers and galleries so she could work in her own way on her own terms. On February 28, 1985, Anna died in Kingston, Ontario from cancer.

Anna integrated her eclectic interests into the subject matter of her paintings –

Theatre : The Ambrose Small Series.

Art : The Rosa Bonheur Series

History: Before Salisbury, Laura Secord and Her Cow, The Trojan Horse, Queen Victoria Reviewing the Troops with the Duke of Wellington After Landseer, Two Phoenicians