Jack Henderson Baker - Artist Info

About Jack Henderson Baker

  • Biography

    Obituary. Independent, Tue, Nov 22, 2011

    Jack Henderson Baker, age 86 of Carpinteria, California, died Friday, November 18, 2011, at his home following a stroke. Jack was born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1925, to his parents, Vern and Elizabeth Baker.
    He grew up in Ventura, California, with his sister, Ann Baker Peters. After serving in the Coast Guard during World War II, he attended Pomona College as an undergraduate then received his masters degree from Claremont College in 1954. He also studied in Mexico City and Paris. He taught art at Santa Barbara High School until the early 1970s.

    Jack’s artistic career spanned several continents and five decades. He is known for incorporat...

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