MR BAKER'S PICTURES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 7 November 1912, Page 5

MR BAKER'S PICTURES

Messrs A. J. Johnson niid Co, will sell by auction at the Club Hotel •sample rooms, Mastcrton, on Wednesday afternoon next,'a very choice collection of oil paintings and watercolours from the easel of Mr Baker. Mr Baker has long ago acquired a high reputation, as an interpreter of New Zealand landscape and the pictures.which he has sent to Masteito'u will serve, to even enhance the. good impression which bis fine collection at the Christenin-ch Exhibition mjide on the public mind. New, Zealand is justly famed for the grandeur of Jbe> scenery, and no one can look upon the pictures \vithout feeling that he gives lis truly typical an<] characteristic touches in all that he portiays. The dominating feature of his work is that-he delights' in warm and .generous- tints. ■■- The rosy glow'-of morn, the bright ■ shafts of sunlight glinting on the hillside, the mellow ;hues of evening,. are. constantly with■b'im. There is, too, a majestic- .depth 'about his forest, foh'a'go, and a limpid translucency aborrt. his rushing water which is eloquent of .our mountain torrents. Mr Baker is exceedingly happy in his depiction of Maori life, and whether it is' the picturesque pa nestling on the river bank, or the canoe on the river it-self, their introduction into the scene gives a human charm to the subject which is always welcome to the New Z«lander who takes a pardonable pv'do ip the romance of the Maori.