About Ernest Hamlin Baker
Lived 1889 – 1975 (aged 85–86). Ernest Hamlin Baker was an American illustrator.
Ernest Hamlin Baker (May 5, 1889 – November 17, 1975) was an American artist and illustrator from Poughkeepsie, New York. He illustrated more than 300 covers for Time magazine as well as several covers for Fortune magazine. Baker also created posters for the American Legion and in 1939 he was hired by the Works Progress Administration to paint the mural titled “Economic Activities in the Days of the Narragansett Planters” at the Wakefield, Rhode Island post office. He drew political cartoons for Poughkeepsie's Evening Star newspaper.
He graduated from Colgate University in 1914.
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American illustrator (1889–1975)
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