Cartoonist, illustrator, painter and printmaker, born at Finleyville, in the Allegheny Mountain section of Pennsylvania, America, where his father ran a small department store. Settled in New York in 1930 after studying at Carnegie Tech, Pittsburgh. As a young man, apart from his own paintings and prints, Baer was drawing as many as 365 cartoons a year for a newspaper syndicate and magazines, for Esquire alone five a month. He became an artist-war correspondent for Abbott Laboratories in 1944 in China, Burma and India, completing paintings of the Medical Corps at the front. This work is now in the Pentagon’s Archives of War. Travelled extensively in Europe from 1948, with time in London from 1960. Illustrated many books. He made his debut as an artist in 1941 with an exhibition of paintings at the New York gallery of Associated American Artists.
American, 1907-1986