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From Louisburg Square
watercolor (circa 1930)

Sears Mansion, Boston
watercolor (circa 1930)

From Louisburg Square
watercolor (circa 1930)

Everett Baker
(20th century)

Oh how Artists hide themselves.

The earliest work known by this
Boston watercolorist is from the 20s.
This would put his birth at least
during the last decade of the
19th Century.

We know that he spent the last years
of his life in New Hampshire,
and what happened in between?
Nobody knows.

Regionalism and Magic Realism
both appeared in the 1920s.
They intersected in a powerful way. 

The bowing of perspective.
The simplification of composition.
A familiar view with certain
peculiar unfamiliar qualities.

Perhaps it should be called:
Magic Regionalism.

The proponents include
Thomas Hart Benton,
Grant Wood and, of course,
Everett Baker.

Please study these works


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Park Square
watercolor (circa 1930)

From Louisburg Square
watercolor (circa 1930)

Park Square
watercolor (circa 1930)