Alice Baber (August 22, 1928 – October 2, 1982) was an American abstract expressionist painter who worked in oil and watercolor.

[3] Her family traveled south to Florida in the winters at a doctor's suggestion because of Alice's poor health, starting around the age of two.

"[2] When World War II, broke out, the yearly trips Florida ended; around that time, Baber was in her early teens.

[3] Baber chose to study art when she attended Lindenwood College for Women in Missouri, where she spent two years before transferring to Indiana University.

[4] Her experimentation with watercolor initiated a shift in style for Baber as she went from painting still lifes to creating more abstracted works.

In 1959, she showed paintings throughout Europe, including the first "Jeune Biennale" of the American Cultural Center in Paris, France.

[7] From 1976 to 1978, Baber traveled to 13 Latin American countries with the U.S. State Department, exhibiting her work and lecturing on art.

[2] Her art reflects, but defies "various stylistic trends" and is "imbued with undulating, sensuous movement, and...pure, translucent colors.