John Baker (stained glass artist)
John 'Jack' Baker (1916-2007) was a British stained-glass artist, teacher, conservator and author.
John Baker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 March 1916 Birmingham |
| Died | 20 December 2007 (aged 91) Hastings |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Central School of Art and Design |
| Spouse | Hilary Stebbing |
Biography
He was a student at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in the late 1930s, where he was a contemporary of Monica Walker and the artist, illustrator and children's author Hilary Stebbing, whom he married in 1946.[1] He worked under James Hogan at the Whitefriars Glass before joining Samuel Caldwell junior at Canterbury Cathedral in 1948 to help reinstate the medieval glass removed for safekeeping during the Second World War.[1]
Teaching
Baker taught stained glass at the Central School of Arts and Crafts from 1951,[2] where in 1953-54 he ran the stained glass department with Tom Fair,[3] and his pupils included Margaret Traherne.[4] From 1963 he taught at Kingston College of Art.[5]
Stained glass windows
- Canterbury Cathedral - St Stephen's Chapel, in memory of Lang Fisk-Moore, Canterbury[6]
- Holy Cross Church, Gleadless Valley - ten large concrete and glass windows, including full height windows of the Virgin Mary and St John[7]
- St Anne's, East Wittering - eighteen windows[8][1]
- Church of the Holy Name, Bow Common Lane, Mile End[1]
- Little St Peter, Cricklewood - two windows and a brick sculpture[1]
- Broomfield Chapel, Abbots Langley - two large abstract windows[1]
- Chapel, St Michaels Convent, Finchley - twenty-two glass windows[1]
- St George, Britwell - Tree of Jesse[9][1]
- Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand[1]
- St Mary, Ide Hill, Sevenoaks - Nativity, east window[10]
- The King's School, Canterbury - library
- St Mary's, Climping - a stylised Madonna and child[11]
- Burgher's Chapel, Sheffield Cathedral
- Our Lady of Walsingham, London Colney
Publications
- English Stained Glass with an introduction by Herbert Read and photographs by Alfred Lammer, Thames & Hudson, London, 1960
- English Stained Glass of the Medieval Period (revised edition of the above), ..... , 1978
References
- "News: John 'Jack' Baker". Vidimus: The Only Online Magazine Devoted to Medieval Stained Glass (15). February 2008. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- "J. (probably John) Baker". Mapping Sculpture - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951. University of Glasgow. Retrieved 6 November 2022.
- Harrod, Tanya (18 July 2006). "Margaret Traherne". The Independent. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- Brown, Sarah (10 August 2006). "Margaret Traherne". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- "DIPAD RE-APPLICATION AUGUST 1963". Archive Kingston School of Art. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- "Friends' photographs - Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop - 4 photographs of stained glass window designed by John Baker in St Stephen's Chapel, in memory of Lang Fisk-Moore". Canterbury Cathedral Online Archives. Canterbury Cathedral. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- "John Baker". Modern Mooch. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- "Our faith in stained glass". St Anne’s Church East Wittering. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
- "Stained Glass of Buckinghamshire Churches - Windows by John Baker - Artist". Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- "St Mary's Church, Ide Hill, Kent". John E. Vigar's Kent Churches. Retrieved 10 November 2022.
The original east window was destroyed in the Second World War and was replaced in 1946 by a colourful modern design of the Nativity by John Baker.
- "Climping – St Mary". Sussex Parish Churches. Retrieved 9 November 2022.