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Day of Sounds: Alice Baber.

The light in the latitudes of both her Illinoisan birthplace and that of sunny Florida where she wintered as a child appeared to have made a lasting impression on Alice Baber (1928-1982). Her early exposure to the luminous rays glinting off the contours of farm fields in Illinois, as well as the Floridian incandescence that brightened blooms, seemed to come full circle when later expressed in her colorful, lightfilled paintings (Moore S. Alice Baber. Woman’s Art Journal. 1982;3[1]:40-44). Already in childhood Baber had determined that her destiny would follow an artistic path, and at a young age she undertook art studies that included instruction in drawing. In the mid-1940s she studied art at Lindenwood College in St Charles, Missouri, subsequently moving to Indiana University at Bloomington, where she was taught by artist Alton Pickens. After achieving a master of arts from the school, she toured Europe with brief study in Fontainebleau at the École des Beaux-Arts, returning to live in New York City. Economic imperatives led to a position as an art editor at McCall’s magazine, and she was thus able to absorb the artistic atmosphere of the city. Her work was exhibited at shows, but despite this success in the United States, she was irresistibly drawn to Paris, where she lived for some months of each year (http://www.nytimes.com/1982/10/07/obituaries /alice-baber-54-artist-of-lyrical-abstractions.html). In the 1950s, in exploring painting techniques, Baber found that when using paper tissues to create smaller forms within a bigger form, the color had a delicate, diaphanous