Rules and Cylinders
2012
Bronze
97 x 73″

Flower in Vase
2009
Screenprint
58 x 58"

Donald Baechler (b. 1956, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American artist. He attended the Maryland Institute College of Art from 1974–1977, and the Cooper Union from 1977–1978. Baechler's source material draws broadly on classical art history, the New York School, contemporary art, folk art, outsider art, pop culture and childhood. Baechler's creative process begins amidst a vast collection of popular images and objects, the archives of years of photographing, looking and gathering. His paintings are condensed versions of that cumulative process, built in fragments and layers to create what he calls an "illusion of history." The artist cites Cy Twombly and Giotto as his primary influences.