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"Writer-artist Susan Baker's magical tribute to furry critters she has known is subtly straightforward – incisive, goofy, unsentimental, and heartbreaking." —House & Garden
A beloved Provincetown artist introduces some of P-town's best-known dogs.
Susan Baker has long been identified with dogs and dog paintings. In this short book, she captures the essence of fourteen of her own and other local dogs in witty and evocative drawings and short commentaries. The distinctive character and prominent behavior of each dog is lovingly elicited in these bold and winsome paintings. With great appeal for all lovers of dogs, Provincetown, and Baker's art, this colorful tribute to Zoomer, Buster, Dogette, Johnny Low-Down, Stogie, Fatso, Skinny, and the others is captivating.
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Visual artist SUSAN BAKER has lived and worked in the Cape Cod area since 1968, when she received a fellowship from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her original and distinctive style has manifested itself in many forms, ranging from early works that included humorous paintings with words on them evoking autobiographical and political themes, papier-maché installations, dog sculptures, and artist's books, to recent Cape Cod landscapes and finely rendered portraits of Italian churches. Her History of Provincetown (1999), a book of comic paintings on almost mythical incidents in the lives of local artists and spectacular nobodies, is already in a second printing.
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