Martha Susan Baker


Martha Susan Baker was an American painter, muralist and teacher born in Evansville, Indiana, United States.

Early life

Baker studied art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. where she later taught.

Career

She wrote and illustrated numerous articles for The Sketch Book: A magazine Devoted to the Fine Arts, published in Chicago.
Baker exhibited her work at the Illinois building at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois.
Baker painted one in a series of eight murals, begun in 1900, that were located on the tenth floor of the Fine Arts Building, lacerated at 410 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago.
In 1903, she appeared on the “Jury of Selection” for the Annual exhibition of the Art Students League of Chicago.
Baker died in Chicago in 1911

Works