Pharaoh Baker saw a black man with a rope around his neck hung from a tree in front of a county courthouse, when he was a child. A few years later, a preacher told Pharaoh to draw the pastoral scene that was on the hand fan upon which he was gazing, instead of paying attention to the sermon. The minister gave him five dollars for the rendering. Baker went on to work as a sign painter in Lake City, but on the side, he painted images with all the anguish that came through him. "Like seeing the blues on canvas," said Blanton Owen, a Florida Folklife Program coordinator. Baker believed in the Bible and his paintings illustrate chapter and verse and testimony. Any angst that disturbs the viewer is but a shadow of his burden.