Samuel Burtis Baker (September 29, 1882 - March 10, 1967), commonly known as Burt Baker , was an American artist and teacher, best known for his portrait paintings .
34-415: Burtis is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Samuel Burtis Baker (1882–1967), American artist and teacher Thomson Burtis (1896–1971), American pulp fiction writer Warren Burtis (1848–1911), American baseball umpire See also [ edit ] Kurtis (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
68-614: A Frank O. Gehry -designed wing was scrapped due to lack of funding, and the remainder of the available property was sold to a private developer. Throughout the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, the gallery continued to display its main collection from Corcoran, Clark, and a few select major donors. At its peak, the museum owned a significant collection including work from Rembrandt Peale , Eugène Delacroix , Edgar Degas , Thomas Gainsborough , John Singer Sargent , Claude Monet , Mariano Fortuny , Pablo Picasso , Edward Hopper , Willem de Kooning , Joan Mitchell , Gene Davis , and many others. Space
102-773: A 1910 painting of his former teacher Ernest Lee Major, which was exhibited in Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, later joining the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum . Following a 1910 exhibition of 10 of his portraits at Copley Gallery in Boston, he was commissioned to do portraits for the Harvard University Law School , the Massachusetts and New Hampshire state legislatures, and others. In 1916, he moved into Fenway Studios , where many of Boston's leading artists worked. Best known as
136-671: A 300-person capacity. The Salon Doré appears on the building's opposite side. Also referred to as the "French Room", it displays intricate French decorations; it was designed in the early 1700s by Jean‐François‐Thérèse Chalgrin and was moved from Paris to the United States sometime before 1904. In 2015, preservationists added the interior portions of the Corcoran Gallery to the National Register of Historic Places (the exterior had been listed in 1971). The interior nomination includes
170-419: A bridge that heads across the atrium back towards the direction of the front door. Gallery space exists throughout. Back on the first floor, three galleries lead from the atrium (originally there were seven). The second floor originally had eight galleries. The rotunda came later, designed by Charles Platt in 1925. Forty eight feet wide, the room's domed ceiling culminates in an oculus skylight. Reminiscent of
204-526: A part of the George Washington University . Founded in 1869 by philanthropist William Wilson Corcoran , the gallery was one of the earliest public art museums in the United States. It held an important collection that became concentrated in American art. In 1890, it started its art school. Its Beaux-Arts style building on The Ellipse was opened in 1897. Due to a prolonged economic shortfall,
238-545: A portrait artist, he would expand his range around this time to include figure painting, landscape, cityscape and still life. During World War I , he designed American Red Cross and Liberty Loan posters for the US government. After moving to Washington, D.C. , in 1921, Baker regularly exhibited with the Arts Club of Washington and the Society of Washington Artists. He was elected to
272-507: A warehouse during the Civil War. It was finally completed in 1874 and the gallery opened to the public. The 93 works on display at the gallery were described in detail by M.E.P. Bouligny in her tribute to Corcoran published in 1874. By 1897, the Corcoran Gallery collection outgrew the space of its original building. A new building was constructed, designed by Ernest Flagg in a Beaux-Arts style. The 135,000 square feet (12,500 m ) building
306-1027: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Samuel Burtis Baker Baker was born in South Boston, Massachusetts , to Samuel Burtis and Jennie Morgan Brine Baker. He graduated from The English High School in Boston in 1901 as president of his class, and as winner of the Lawrence Prize for Drawing. He studied at the Massachusetts Normal Art School in Boston from 1901 to 1906, under Joseph DeCamp and Ernest Lee Major . After graduating, he continued his studies in Mystic, Connecticut , with Charles Harold Davis , and Belmont, Massachusetts , with Edward H. Barnard, focusing on landscape painting . Baker opened his own studio in Boston in 1910. His early work consisted primarily of portraits of society women, educators and musicians, including
340-561: The District of Columbia . Its mission was "dedicated to art and used solely for the purpose of encouraging the American genius." The Corcoran Gallery of Art was originally located at 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue , in the building that now houses the Renwick Gallery . Construction of that building started before the Civil War . The building, near completion, was used by the government as
374-740: The Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts , held a solo show of 30 Baker paintings, in tandem with the exhibition A Century of Talent: Unknown Artists of the Boston Art Club , which also included a Baker painting. Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery of Art is a former art museum in Washington, D.C. , that is now the location of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design ,
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#1733092605412408-611: The Guild of Boston Artists in 1925. A Boston Globe review of a 1925 solo show at the Guild of Boston Artists Gallery praised the Guild for recognizing Baker as one of the foremost painters in the US. Interior with Figure (1920) is considered to be Baker's most famous work. In it, a woman in profile holds up a small hand mirror, silhouetted against a curtained window. It won the Corcoran Gallery of Art 's William A. Clark Prize in 1921, and
442-572: The Pantheon , the space offers an exquisite entry to the building's Clark Wing. An observer would access a marble-floored, square, dark staircase hall with wood panels to reach the Clark Wing galleries. At the northern end of the building, the Hemicycle's unusual shape fills the angle created by New York Avenue and 17th Street. The space is the auditorium, being 67 by 45 feet (20 m × 14 m) with
476-409: The surname Burtis . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Burtis&oldid=1184436231 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
510-528: The $ 200 million Beaux Arts building, and gave $ 50 million to George Washington University to renovate the facility and operate the school programs. The 17,000-piece art collection, worth $ 2 billion, was donated to the National Gallery of Art. At the beginning of 2018, the director of the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design officially disclosed plans for the National Gallery of Art to bring art back to
544-601: The Corcoran Gallery of Art agreed to host a traveling solo exhibit of Robert Mapplethorpe 's works. Mapplethorpe showed a new series that he had explored shortly before his death, Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment , which was curated by Janet Kardon of the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia . Several Trustees of the Corcoran and U.S. Representative Dick Armey (TX) and Senator Jesse Helms (NC) were horrified when
578-502: The Corcoran Gallery of Art's closing, it was one of the oldest privately supported cultural institutions in the United States. Founded in 1890, the Corcoran School began with 40 students and two faculty members. It was later renamed the Corcoran College of Art + Design in the 1990s, where it coexisted with the gallery. The museum's main focus was American art . In 2014, after decades of financial problems and alleged mismanagement,
612-495: The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design. When the gallery was founded in 1869 by William Wilson Corcoran , the cofounder of Riggs Bank , it was one of the first fine art galleries in the country. Corcoran established the gallery, supported with an endowment , "for the perpetual establishment and encouragement of the Fine Arts." While an independent institution, the Corcoran was the oldest and largest non-federal art museum in
646-599: The Corcoran was dissolved by court order. A new non-profit was established by the trustees and the Corcoran's $ 2 billion, 17,000-piece art collection was given away for free to the National Gallery of Art (NGA). Works the NGA did not acquire were donated to cultural institutions throughout the city and nation. The Corcoran College of Art and Design, its $ 50 million endowment, and its $ 200 million historic 17th Street building were given to George Washington University , which renamed it
680-815: The Gallery failed in October 2014; pursuant to its founding charter, its art school and building transferred to GWU and the 19,456 works in its collection were distributed to other public museums and institutions in Washington, D.C., primarily the National Gallery of Art . The Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University , part of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, hosts exhibitions by its students and visiting artists and offers degrees in fine art, photojournalism, interaction design, interior architecture, and other fields of artistic study. Prior to
714-499: The School of the Corcoran Gallery of Art , where he taught life drawing, composition and drawing from antiquity. He was vice principal there from 1926 until he retired in 1935. From 1925 to 1936, he was also an adjunct professor at the College of Fine Arts at George Washington University , teaching drawing and painting. Baker died at his home in Washington, D.C., on March 10, 1967. He
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#1733092605412748-407: The atrium from the front entrance stands the grand staircase, leading to the second floor. Low rise stairs, 16 feet (4.9 m) wide, are watched over by six statues on pedestals atop marble platforms, and lead to a landing halfway to the second floor. Hold onto the brass-topped railing for balance. From the grand staircase, one can access the rotunda and the second story level of the atrium, including
782-645: The controversy, more than a dozen artists canceled exhibitions, funding and membership declined, and staff resigned in protest. By the end of 1989 Orr-Cahall had resigned as museum director. In its final years, the museum and its affiliated Corcoran College of Art and Design together had a staff of about 140 and an operating budget of about $ 24 million. Revenue came from grants and contributions, admissions fees, tuition, membership dues, gift shop and restaurant sales, and an endowment worth around $ 30 million. In February 2001, two AOL executives ( Robert W. Pittman and Barry Schuler ) and their wives donated $ 30 million to
816-423: The demonstration. In June 1989, pop artist Lowell Blair Nesbitt became involved in the controversy over Mapplethorpe's work. It was at this time that Nesbitt, a longtime friend of Mapplethorpe, revealed that he had a $ 1.5 million bequest to the museum in his will. Nesbitt publicly promised that if the museum refused to host the exhibition he would revoke his bequest . The Corcoran refused and Nesbitt bequeathed
850-519: The money to the Phillips Collection instead. After the Corcoran cancelled the Mapplethorpe exhibition, the underwriters of the exhibition went to the nonprofit Washington Project for the Arts , which showed the controversial images in its own space from July 21 to August 13, 1989, to large crowds. The 1990 NEA Appropriations Bill included language against "obscene" work. As a result of
884-474: The museum moved to its final building at 17th Street and New York Avenue. In 1928, the art collection of former Senator William A. Clark joined the Corcoran in a new wing designed by Charles Adam Platt, which was inaugurated by President Calvin Coolidge . For decades, the Corcoran examined the possibility of adding on a final wing which would complete the campus footprint. These plans abruptly ended in 2005 after
918-411: The museum, its largest single donation since its founding. In 2014, following years of negligence and financial mismanagement, a lawsuit was brought by the law firm Gibson Dunn on behalf of the group Save the Corcoran against the trustees. After two weeks of hearings, Judge Okum ordered the Corcoran, the city's oldest independent museum, dissolved. The trustees gave the Corcoran College of Art and Design
952-548: The second floor of the Flagg building. Flagg also designed the interior of the building. Upon entering the building's front doors on 17th Street, you first enter the 170-by-50-foot (52 m × 15 m) atrium. The vast space, separated into three connected sections, consists of forty limestone columns and twin skylights (to light the intended display of sculptures). The Beaux-Arts-inspired room rises two interior stories and has housed exhibit space and other uses. Directly across
986-406: The sexually explicit works were revealed to them; the museum board of trustees succumbed to pressure and cancelled the exhibit the night before its opening, which had already been announced to its members through an exhibition preview invitation. The Coalition of Washington Artists organized a demonstration to protest the Corcoran Gallery's cancellation of the exhibit. An estimated 700 people attended
1020-417: Was always a challenge; only a small percentage of the gallery's permanent collection could be displayed in the confines of the 17th Street gallery, which shared its roughly 140,000 square feet (13,000 m ) with the art school. Donelson Hoopes served as curator from 1962 to 1964. During the 1980s museum attendance swelled and the Corcoran's events and programs were imitated by other institutions. In 1989,
1054-547: Was awarded a silver medal at the Corcoran's Biennial Exhibition of 1921. It made its New York debut in the National Academy Museum and School 's winter exhibition in 1923. The Corcoran Gallery of Art purchased the painting in 1936. Baker's portrait of opera singer Lillian Nordica in costume as Brunhilde from Ring of the Nibelung was his longest-running portrait work, begun in 1910 and finally completed in 1948. It
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1088-476: Was built to house an expanded Corcoran collection in addition to the nascent school, which had been formally founded in 1890. The new building features a pair of bronze statues, the Canova Lions , at its entrance. These lions were purchased at auction by the Corcoran Gallery in 1888 and placed in front of the museum at its original location. The iconic bronze castings were moved to their current location in 1897 when
1122-831: Was hung at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, and later donated to the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts . Several of Baker's paintings were loaned to The White House for display in Harry S. Truman 's private living quarters from May 1945 to October 1946. Baker taught drawing and design at the Rindge School in Cambridge, Massachusetts , from 1918 to 1921. In 1921, he moved to Washington, D.C., to teach at
1156-428: Was successful during his lifetime, but had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death, in part because he was two decades younger than many of the other Boston painters with whom he was linked, and also because his representational style of painting had fallen out of fashion. Baker had a daughter, Alden Baker, born in 1928, who went on to become an impressionist artist. In 1993, a quarter-century after his death,
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