Minimalist artist Jo Baer was born Josephine Gail Kleinberg in Seattle, Washington in 1929. She studied at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1946 to 1949, majoring in biology, while taking... Read full biography
Minimalist artist Jo Baer was born Josephine Gail Kleinberg in Seattle, Washington in 1929. She studied at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1946 to 1949, majoring in biology, while taking freshman art courses. She pursued studies in Gestalt psychology in New York City with the graduate... Read full biography
Minimalist artist Jo Baer was born Josephine Gail Kleinberg in Seattle, Washington in 1929. She studied at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1946 to 1949, majoring in biology, while taking freshman art courses. She pursued studies in Gestalt psychology in New York City with the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research from 1950 to 1953. Initially an Abstract-Expressionist when that movement was at its height in the 1950s, Baer moved to geometric, hard-edged painting when... Read full biography
Minimalist artist Jo Baer was born Josephine Gail Kleinberg in Seattle, Washington in 1929. She studied at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1946 to 1949, majoring in biology, while taking freshman art courses. She pursued studies in Gestalt psychology in New York City with the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research from 1950 to 1953. Initially an Abstract-Expressionist when that movement was at its height in the 1950s, Baer moved to geometric, hard-edged painting when that aesthetic surfaced in the 1960s, perhaps as a result of meeting minimalist artists Donald Judd and Dan Flavin in 1962. In the 1970s, her style changed back to an expressionist handling of animal and human forms. She moved to Ireland in 1975,... Read full biography
Minimalist artist Jo Baer was born Josephine Gail Kleinberg in Seattle, Washington in 1929. She studied at the University of Washington, Seattle from 1946 to 1949, majoring in biology, while taking freshman art courses. She pursued studies in Gestalt psychology in New York City with the graduate faculty of the New School for Social Research from 1950 to 1953. Initially an Abstract-Expressionist when that movement was at its height in the 1950s, Baer moved to geometric, hard-edged painting when that aesthetic surfaced in the 1960s, perhaps as a result of meeting minimalist artists Donald Judd and Dan Flavin in 1962. In the 1970s, her style changed back to an expressionist handling of animal and human forms. She moved to Ireland in 1975, London in 1982 and Amsterdam in 1984, collaborating with English artist Bruce Robbins from 1978 to 1984. Baer, in a 1983 article in... Read full biography
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About Jo Baer: Books
Books & Publications (31)
Publications based on askART research. List may not be comprehensive.
Letters to a Young Artist
2006
Amenoff, Gregory, et all
96 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 2004 2003 - 2004 (25th Edition)
2004
McGowan, Alison C (Editor)
1,512 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1997-1998
1997
Marquis Who's Who
1,515 pages
North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century A Biographical Dictionary
1995
Heller, Jules and Nancy G. Heller
612 pages
Karo Dame/Konstruktive, Konkrete und Radikale Kunst von Frauen von 1914 bis heute
1995
Wismer, Beat
424 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art, 1993-1994, 20th Edition (American Federation of Arts)
1993
Bowker R R
1,473 pages
Modernism in Dispute Art Since the Forties
1992
Wood, Paul (others)
267 pages (color)
Abstraction, Geometry, Painting Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Auping, Michael
232 pages (color)
Contemporary Artists (3rd Edition)
1989
Naylor, Colin (editor)
1,059 pages
Minimalism Art of Circumstance
1988
Baker, Kenneth
144 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Albright-Knox Art Gallery Painting and Sculpture/Acquisitions since 1972
1987
Krane, Susan
379 pages (color)
Who's Who in American Art-1986 1986
1986
Jaques Cattell Press
1,292 pages
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
The Art Dealers The Powers Behind the Scenes Tell How
1984
DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones
320 pages
Art of Our Time The Saatchi Collection (4 Vols)
1984
Lund Humphries
700 pages (color)
American Women Artists from Early Times to the Present
1982
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer
560 pages (color)
Art in the Seventies
1980
Lucie-Smith, Edward
128 pages (color)
American Painting of the 1970s (Exhibition catalog)
1979
Cathcart, Linda L
111 pages (color)
Arts in America/A Bibliography Volume 2 (Painting and Graphics)
1979
Karpel, Bernard/Ruth Spiegel
736 pages
Who's Who in American Art, 1976 12th Edition
1976
Jaques Cattell Press
756 pages
American Art Since 1945 From the Collection of MOMA
1975
Legg, Alicia
84 pages (color)
Women Artists in America: Eighteenth Century to Present
1973
Collins, Jim L.
426 pages
Icons and Images of the Sixties
1971
Calas, Nicolas and Elena
347 pages
Minimal Art A Critical Anthology
1968
Battcock, Gregory (editor)
448 pages
North Carolina Collects (loan exhibition N Carolina owned) (Exhibition catalog)