Lucy Baker Acrylic Painting "Vortex"

Item Details

Lucy Baker (American, b. 1955)
Vortex, 2005
Acrylic and glitter painting on canvas
Signed to the verso
Titled and dated to the verso

An acrylic and glitter painting on canvas titled Vortex by listed artist Lucy Baker (American, b. 1955), dated 2005. The work depicts a vibrant abstract composition comprised of a dense whirlpool of acrylic suspended within a shimmering dotted abyss. To the verso, artist’s signature, date and titled are inscribed. The piece is presented unframed.

Lucy was born in Wellesley, Massachusetts in 1955. She received her B.A Fine Arts at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, 1975 and her Certificate of Welding at Platt Tech. in Milford, Connecticut, 1977. She attended the Emma Lake workshop in 1980 as a guest of Kenworth Moffett. Member of the New New Painters, a group of artists brought together by the first curator of modern and contemporary art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Dr. Kenworth Moffett in 1978. Lucy has been the key figure for an entire movement of brilliant artists, the New New Painters, whom she has led both stylistically and in the use of the new acrylic paints and gels.

Provenance
The Lucy Baker and Kenworth Moffett Collection of New New Group Painters

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18DCC603-103