Collections: Contemporary Art: John I. H. Baur

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John I. H. Baur

As head of the Brooklyn Museum’s Department of Painting and Sculpture from 1936 to 1952, Jack Baur oversaw a period of unparalleled growth owing to his remarkable ability to identify over-looked American artists, and locate caches of long-forgotten works. At the time, few people recognized the potential for research and collecting in the field of historic American painting. By 1940 Baur outlined a specific collecting plan enumerating gaps in the Museum’s holdings of colonial, nineteenth-century, and contemporary painting; and he succeeded in filling most of them in the course of his tenure.


• Artist: Alice Neel, American, 1900-1986
• Medium: Oil on canvas
• Place Made: USA
• Dates: 1974
• Dimensions: 45 1/2 x 38in. (115.6 x 96.5cm)
• Collections: Contemporary Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Orientation Gallery, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 1993.161
• Credit Line: Gift of Hartley and Richard Neel
• Image: Overall, 1993.161_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Alice Neel (American, 1900-1986). John I. H. Baur, 1974. Oil on canvas, 45 1/2 x 38in. (115.6 x 96.5cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Hartley and Richard Neel, 1993.161 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1993.161_SL1.jpg)