Early Life, Family and Training Born on March 7, 1899, in Memphis, Tennessee, Sarah Baker entered a world where art was already a family language. She was the daughter of Thomas Henry and Bealle Jennings Baker. Her very name was a tribute, drawn from her paternal grandmother, a woman who had also pursued a life in painting. This early connection to the craft provided a quiet, foundational understanding of the life she would eventually lead. Her formal education began in Baltimore at the Maryland Institute College of Art. It was here that her technical skills began to take shape, moving from…