Background
Baker, Ernest Hamlin was born on May 5, 1889 in Essex, New York, United States. Son of Clarence Hamlin and Jane Martha (Roberts) Baker.
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Ernest Hamlin Baker
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Bachelor of Arts, Colgate University, 1912.
Career
Ernestine (Mistress Leonard Nagel Henrich). Free lance artist from 1905. Political cartoons for Dutchess County Democrat and Peoples Plain Spokesman, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1905-1907, for Evening Enterprise, Poughkeepsie, 1912-1914.
Cover designs for B.R.T. Monthly, 1915-1919.
Designed Christmas seals for National Tuberculosis Association, 1919, 20, 31, 35. Created giant figure symbolizing Telephone Сompany service, used in 12 large paintings for New York Telephone Сompany, 1928-1930.
Painted small mural “Colonial Williamsburg,” for West Virginia Paper Company, 1937. Drew “profiles” for New Yorker, 1926-1942.
Covers for Fortune, 1931-1938.
Mural, “Economic Activities. of the Narrangansett Planters,” for Wakefield, Rhode Island, Post Office, 1938-1939. Wrote series of articles, illustrated by diagrams, analyzing old master paintings for American Artist, 1940-1941.
Cover portraits for Time 1939-1956. Also 4 special war maps for Time, 1940.
12 war propaganda posters (with Frances O’Brien Garfield), from 1942.
One man shows include Walle Studio, New York City, 1940, New York Guild Free Lance Artists, 1943, Colgate University, 1944, Charles Francis Press Gallery, New York City, 1947, Flat Rock (North Carolina) Playhouse, 1953, Civic Art Gallery, Greenville, South Carolina., 1953, Asheville (North Carolina) Art Museum Association. 1954, Rowlands Traveling Exhibitions, 1957-1960.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow International Institute Arts and Letters (life). Member of New York Guild Free Lance Artists. Asheville Art Museum Association, Skull and Scroll, Theta Nu Epsilon, Phi Gamma Delta.
Connections
Married Ernestine Herder Pendorf, June 14, 1913.
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Nationality
American