He has worked at the Chateau Parentignat in France, where he assisted Dr. Leslie Carlyle with the analysis and reconstruction of media used by Van Gogh, and at the Yale Uniersity Art Gallery. Baade has spearheaded three projects funded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the University of Delaware to create historically accurate reconstructions of Kress paintings and techniques of Henry Ossawa Tanner for the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.