Kenneth Bischoff Baxter was born in San Diego, California in 1944. He is known as a plein-air landscape painter and as a painter-teacher who instructed many art students and painters. He lives in Salt Lake City.

Baxter earned a BFA from the University of Utah where Alvin Gittins, a portraitist, and Frank Ericson, a landscapist, were his mentors. He later earned an MFA from Utah State University. Baxter began his professional career (1969-70), as a traditional-realist known for his paintings of the historical reconstructions of downtown Salt Lake City. His works reveal his talent for composition and brushwork. After a time and influenced by LeConte Stewart, he began to paint his immediate outdoor environment. As founder of the plein-air school in Utah, Baxter influencted the aesthetic lives of many Utah artists.

Sheds Near Herriman (1991), Gloxinia No. 2 (1981), Truck Farm (1970), and Mecham's Boots (1973), his first attempt at realism, are featured in the Springville Museum of Art permanent collection.

Biographical information on this page was adapted from the Springville Museum of Art .