| Baker, Richard Brown | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector | |||||||||||||||||||||
| dates | 1912-2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||
| other cities | Shelburne, VT; Bristol, RI; | |||||||||||||||||||||
| sex | M | |||||||||||||||||||||
| history |
Collector and donor of contemporary art to both the Yale University Art Gallery and the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design. In the 1950's Baker collected work by Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Hans Hofmann. In the early 1960's he collected Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Morris, Richard Tuttle, Andy Warhol and Frank Stella; in the 70's, Robert Bechtel, Ralph Goings and John Baeder. |
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| decades | 1940-1950 1950-1960 1960-1970 1970-1980 1980-1990 1990-2000 |
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| updated | 03/22/2024 12:09:29 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| research links |
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