Gus Baker

Gus Lafayette Baker (Mee 10, 1922 – Mee 16, 1994) bụ onye na-ese ihe, onye na-ese ihe, onye na-ese foto na onye nkuzi..

 Ndụ mbido 
A anim Baker na Mee 10, 1922 na Winchester, Tennessee dị ka nwa Thomas Murrell Baker na Nora Wright.  Ọ gara ụlọ akwụkwọ Central na Winchester, ebe ọ dhibaato ọrụ dị ka onye na-ese ihe osise maka akwụkwọ awụ ụlọ akwụkwọ ya.  Ọ akwụkwọ akwụkwọ na 1940, ọ debanyere aha na Mahadum South dị na Sewanee, ma mgbe ọtụtụ afụ asị, Agha nke okpukpe ndị òtù ya.  Ọ jere ozi na US Army wee tinye oge na European Theatre.

Mgbe agha ahụ gasịrị, Baker laghachiri na Mahadum South ebe ọ gụrụ akwụkwọ na nkà ihe ọmụma.  Dr. John M. S. McDonald, Prọfesọ nke Nkà Ihe Ọmụma, metụrụ ya n'ahụ́ nke ukwuu.  Ọ bụkwa onye isi egwu, ma were arụmụka siri ike ruo nwa oge maka ọrụ dị ka onye pianist.  Ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ magna cum laude na 1947 na BA.  ogo na Philosophy. Hieronymus, Clara. “Nashville Artist of the Year,” Tennessean, September 25, 1960, p. C1.

 Nkuzi nka 
Na 1938, dị afọ iri na isii, Baker zutere onye ọzọ na-ese ihe nkiri Winchester, Avery Handly (1913-1958).  [1] Ọ bụ ebe na ihe dị ka afe ndụ tolitere, Handly nyere aka ike echiche ya, katọọ, ma kesaa ike ya na akwụkwọ na egwu.  Site na agbamume ya na onye tinye Baker ndụ ọrụ nka.  O mechara mmebi nka na Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Mahadum Southern Methodist na Art Institute of Chicago.  Ọ fit anɔ na Atlanta Art Institute, nweta nzere BFA, 1952, na MFA, 1953. N'ebe ahụ, a set ya "kpakpando" nke ụlọ akwụkwọ ahụ ma nye ya akwụkwọ akwụkwọ Ellen S. Booth maka iwe ihe dị elu na  ụzọ na Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan.  [2] O mechara mechara na Fine Arts Center nke Colorado Springs.

 Ọrụ nka 
N'afọ 1955, Baker bịara Nashville, Tennessee ka ọ wereere nka na ụlọ ọrụ Watkins .  O mechara mechara na Mahadum Tennessee, Cheekwood Botanical Garden na Museum of Art [1] na Mahadum steeti Tennessee .  E wezụga ịbụ onye nkuzi nka a ma ama, Baker gara n'ihu na-ahụ ihe.  O kwuputara onwe ya n'ụdị dị iche iche sitere na mmetụ nke cubism na ike ruo n'ihe nkiri na-echeta ncheta mgbe ụfọdụ na-adabere na pointilism. . Franklin, Corinne. “Artist Of Year Readies Own Show At Parthenon,” Nashville Banner, September 23, 1960, p. 9.

Na 1960 Baker bụ onye Davidson County Business na Professional Women's Club kwanyere ugwu dị ka onye nka Nashville nke afọ maka ọrụ ya n'ịhazi ihe ngosi ngosi maka enyi ya na onye ndu ya ogologo oge, Avery Handly. Hieronymus, Clara. “Avery Handly: Festival Show a Memorial,” Tennessean, May 8, 1960, p. C1.

Baker ọtụtụ maka ọrụ ya ma igodo na Mahadum South, 1950;  Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, 1950;  Virginia Intermont Asọmpi, 1953;  Ndị eze ihe ngosi nka dị elu na Atlanta, 1953;  Mahadum nke Tennessee, 1958;  ọkwa steeti Tennessee, 1958, 1959;  Mahadum Vanderbilt, 1962;  na Parthenon (Nashville), 1960, 1979. Ma anụ anya, ọrụ ya echefu echefu bụ windo 63 nwere ikike o mere maka Thomas P. Phillips Memorial Library na Archives na Nashville. Hieronymus, Clara. “Gus Baker, teacher, dies at 72,” Tennessean, May 18, 1994, p. B5.

A na-anya ọrụ ya na mkpokọta mkpokọta na-adịgide adịgide na Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Tennessee State Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, na South Methodist University .

Na 1985 ọ lara ezumike nká na nkuzi wee nwee na Mee 16, 1994. [1] E liri ya na nkata Baker na Winchester.

N'afọ 1996, e mere emume nke onye ọrụ Baker na Mahadum Belmont na Nashville Chappell, Susan. “Fine Lines: A life’s work shines through show,” Nashville Banner, October 16, 1996, p. C7.

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