Normand Baker
(Australia 09 Jul 1908–24 May 1955)
- Title
- Self portrait
- Place of origin
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Sydney →
New South Wales →
Australia
- Year
- (1937)
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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101.6 x 76.2cm stretcher; 124.4 x 99.0 x 10.5cm frame
- Signature & date
- Signed l.l. corner, brown oil "N H BAKER". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs Millicent Pearl Baker 1956
- Accession number
- 9187
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
Normand H. Baker, at twenty-nine years old, was the youngest artist to win the Archibald Prize in 1937 and, although relatively unknown, the Gallery had already purchased two of his earlier works. Coverage in the daily papers centred on the fact that Baker was the son of a confectioner and worked as a commercial artist. The winning painting was donated to the Gallery by the artist's mother, Millicent Pearl Baker in 1956.
Peter Ross, 'Let's Face It: The history of the Archibald Prize' 2005, pg. 136.
- Bibliography (8)
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Peter Ross (Australia) (Author), Let's face it: the history of the Archibald Prize, Sydney, 2005, 26, 27 (colour illus.), 136 (colour illus.).
Peter Ross (Australia) (Author), Let's face it: the history of the Archibald Prize, Sydney, 1999, 28, 29 (colour illus.), 126 (colour illus.).
Susan Hunt (Author), The Archibald Prize 1921-1993, Sydney, 1993, 14 (colour illus.).
'The Archibald Prize' by Anna Waldmann, pg. 213-236., Art and Australia (Vol. 20, No. 2) Summer 1982, Summer 1982, 219 (colour illus.).
Mervyn Horton (Australia, b.1917, d.1983) (Editor), Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), The Archibald Prize: an illustrated history 1921-1981, Sydney, 1981, 219 (colour illus.).
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), Purchases and Acquisitions for 1956 National Art Gallery of N.S.W., Sydney, 1956, 5. cat.no. 2
Art in Australia [series 3, no. 70] Mar 1938, Mar 1938, 76 (illus.).
'Archibald Prize winner. Normand H. Baker. Wynne Prize to Gruner'., The Sydney morning herald 25 Feb 1938, 25 Feb 1938. Review of the Archibald and Wynne Prizes for 1937.
- Exhibition history (1)
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Archibald, Wynne and Sulman (1937), Art Gallery of New South Wales, 25 Feb 1938–Mar 1938.
