William Bliss Baker
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Born in New York City in 1859, William Bliss Baker (1859—November 22, 1886) was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape artist in the Realism movement when he died at his father's house in Hoosick Falls, New York at the age of 27 due to a back injury received while ice skating several months earlier.
He studied at the National Academy of Design for four years beginning in 1876, where he won first prize during his first exhibit in 1879. By 1881, Baker had set up a studio north of Albany, New York. He also had a studio in the Knickerbocker Building in New York City. His paintings were created using oils and watercolors, including several works done in black & white.
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