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Howard Baer
Howard Baer received his art education at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh and in 1929, moved to New York City where he worked for ten years as Cartoonist and Illustrator for The New Yorker, Esquire and Colliers before turning to painting in 1941.
During World War II, Abbott Laboratories commissioned him as an Artist-Correspondent to record the work of the Waves in aviation at the Anacostia Naval Base, Maryland and the Waves Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma.
His second assignment for Abbott Laboratories was to depict the work of the Army Medical Department in the China-Burma-India Theater from April to September 1944. (Paintings from this period are featured on this site).
After the war Howard Baer traveled and painted in Europe for three and a half years. He had numerous exhibitions between 1948 and 1957 including the Gallery Herene and the Exposition Des Independents in Paris, the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C., the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Arts And Crafts Club in Pittsburgh and the Gallery Cadan in New York City.