Herbert Baker photographs
name: label: Photographer
content: Baker, Herbert
place: label: Place
content: Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Art objects -- Collectors and collecting
creator: label: Photographer
content: Baker, Herbert
abstract: label: Summary
content: Photographs of art objects at various museums taken and assembled by Herbert Baker.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Art dealer Herbert Baker (1924-2001) studied art in Chicago and, after serving in the South Pacific during World War II, worked for Raymond Loewry Associates, Burton Browne Advertising, and Wetzel Brothers.  In 1950 he founded Herbert Baker Advertising.  That same year he began collecting African Art.  A member of the Committee on Primitive Art at the Art Institute between 1960 and 1970, Baker is an authority on African and Oceanic art.  His art holdings have been shown at Lake Forest College in Illinois, the Museum of African Art (now the National Museum of African Art), and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 184 Photographic prints ((1 box), color)
label: Extent
content: 223 Slides (photographs) ((1 volume), color)
label: Extent
content: 109 Photographic prints (color, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
label: Extent
content: 13 Photographic prints (black & white, 8 x 10 in. or smaller)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1950-1965
container: label: Container
content: Volume 1
label: Container
content: Box 1
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated by Herbert Baker, 1978 and 1997.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1978-001
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Photographic prints
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographic prints
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Assembled by Baker as a collection for personal reference purposes, the photographs document African anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures, ceremonial containers, masks, and weapons.  African masks documented are from the following peoples: Bamana, Dogon, Fang (Pahouin), Igbo, Lega, Senufo, and Yaka.  Sculptures shown include an Asante akuaba (wooden child figure), a Mumuye figure, and Senufo figures.  Other objects depicted include an Asante state sword, a Bamana chiwara (antelope headdress), a beaded gourd from the Cameroon Grassfields, and a Dogon door and stool.