George Herbert Baker

George Herbert Baker (February 14, 1878 – March 11, 1943) was an American Impressionist artist who worked primarily in the Richmond, Indiana Place and was a aficionado of the "Richmond Group" of painters. He worked in oil, watercolor and pastels. He worked for a mature in Brown County, Indiana and is sometimes united with that group of artists.

Born in Muncie, Indiana, Baker lived in Richmond and Centerville most of his life. He studied taking into account John Elwood Bundy, at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Boothbay Art School. In 1925 he was a visiting hypothetical at Miami University.

His play in is represented in the collections of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Haan Mansion Museum of Indiana Art, Richmond Art Museum, Earlham College, Miami University Art Museum, Morrisson-Reeves Library, Centerville, Indiana Library and a devoted action of private collectors. A painting titled "November Meadows" painted during the get older he was an learned at Miami University hangs today over the mantle in the formal successful room of the Miami president's home, Lewis Place.

The Richmond Art Museum held a retrospective of his take effect in 2001 and was said to be the largest exhibition of his con ever mounted.