Background
Joseph Armstrong Baird, Jr. was born in 1922 in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Education
Baird earned his bachelor's degree at Oberlin College in Ohio in 1944, and a master's degree and a doctorate at Harvard University, in 1947 and 1951.
Career
He is the owner of the North Point Gallery in San Francisco and is also a professor of art history at the University of California in Davis.
Achievements
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PUBLICATIONS Books: The West Remembered, 1973; Historic Lithographs of San Francisco, 1972; California’s Pictorial Letter sheets: 1849-1869, 1967; The Churches of Mexico, 1962; Time’s Wondrous Changes, 1962. Contributor: Dictionary of World Art, 1969; Grolier Encyclopedia, 1961. Catalogs: Pre-Impressionism, 1969 (Univ. of Calif.: Davis); Catalogue of Original Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors in the Robert B. Honeyman, Jr., Collection, 1968 (Friends of the Bancroft Lib.: Berkeley); Samuel Marsden Brookes: 1816-1892, 1962 (Calif. Hist. Soc.: San Francisco).
COLLECTIONS Calif. Hist. Soc., San Francisco; Univ. of Calif., Baird Archive, Special Cllctn., Davis; Univ. of Calif., Bancroft Lib., Berkeley.
Membership
He is a member of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, the Oakland Museum, and also an honorary member of the California Historical Society, which granted him an Award of Merit.
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Nationality
American
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1944
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1947
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1951