Grace M Baker - Artist Info

About Grace M Baker

  • Biography from the Archives of askART

    Grace M. Baker served as Head of the Art Department at the University of Northern Colorado, 1913-1918; Head of Division of Arts, Fine Arts, Home Arts, and Industrial Arts, 1933-1941. She retired in 1942 as Professor of Art Emeritus. She was born near Kewanee, Illinois on October 18, 1876 and passed away in September 1968 at the age of 91.

    She graduated from Geneseo Collegiate Institute, 1895; Illinois State Normal School, 1898; Chicago Art Institute, 1925; Teachers College, Columbia University, B.A., 1924 & M.A., 1928. She taught in Illinois, Chicago Art Institue, Oklahoma State Normal School, and Wisconsin State Normal School prior to coming to the University of Northern Colorado.

    Sources: University of Northern Colorado Archival Services, Faculty Clippings (RG6 S7 F1); Ford-Waldo, Peggy. "Greeley Photographers, 1870 - 1970." Emailed to Shirley Soenksen on August 5, 2008.

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