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Black and white print of a blooming passion flower on a leafy vine. The flower features radiating petals and an intricate center, surrounded by textured leaves, coiled tendrils, and a closed bud, set against a dark, softly shaded background.
Passion Flower
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Passion Flower

Artist Lamar Baker (American, 1908 - 1994)
Datec. 1935 - 1940
MediumEtching, aquatint, black ink
Dimensionssheet: 8 x 6 7/16 in. (20.3 x 16.4 cm)
image: 5 7/8 x 3 15/16 in. (14.9 x 10 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineGift of Hiram and Avonell Williams, by exchange with the Columbus Museum, Columbus, Georgia, in memory of Lamar Baker
Object number1997.31.3
Collections
Visual DescriptionBlack and white print of a blooming passion flower on a leafy vine. The flower features radiating petals and an intricate center, surrounded by textured leaves, coiled tendrils, and a closed bud, set against a dark, softly shaded background.

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Lamar Baker
1937
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Lamar Baker
1942
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Self Portrait with Cotton Plant
Lamar Baker
1940
Black and white profile portrait of a man with closed eyes, facing left. Large lobed leaves and spiky buds frame the upper left. A metal chain winds across the top right and down into the bottom left.
Negro Head
Lamar Baker
1940
Black and white cross-hatched print of a partially nude woman sitting on a wooden chair, facing left. A draped cloth covers her lap. Her brightly lit upper body and face contrast heavily with the dark, textured background.
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Lamar Baker
c. 1935 - 1940
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Chinese Artist
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Lamar Baker
c. 1938 - 1940
Black and white print of a wooden building with a shingled roof and cupola. The front features an open door and wooden steps. Arched windows line the side. A large bare tree stands in the right foreground.
Country Church
Lamar Baker
c. 1940
Black and white print. A man reads a newspaper headlined "FIRE BUG SAYS CHIEF" next to a seated, uniformed man with closed eyes. A translucent, helmeted figure holding a flaming torch overlaps a burning building in the background.
Pyromaniac, from the series Aberrations
Lamar Baker
c. 1937
Heavily and finely cast as a three-legged bixi, a mythological dragon-tortoise with dragon-like head with forked antlers and bushy tail, the carapace inlaid with a cloisonné enamel fragment of 16th century date decorated with thee flower heads and green leafy tendrils reserved on a turquoise-blue ground
Weight
Chinese Artist
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Black and white print of an abandoned ruin. A tall smokestack and several broken columns stand behind a raised foundation with a large, dark hole. Tall, overgrown grasses surround the crumbling structures beneath a heavily shaded, dark sky.
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Lamar Baker
1936

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