Streeter Blair was born in Cadmus, Kansas in 1888.  He was an educator, editor and owner of an antique business in Los Angeles, before he started painting at the age of 60.  Many of his works are accurate recreations of historic scenes, while others are remembrances of his childhood on a farm in Kansas.

Studied

University of Kansas, A.B.; University of Chicago; self-taught in painting

Member

Laguna Beach Arts Center

Exhibited

Art News Annual, 1952; Portland, Maine, 1951; William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1951; ShiererMuseum, 1951; Ross Museum, Newark, NJ, 1951; Smithsonian Institute traveling exhibition, Eruope, 1955, U.S.A., 1958-59; LACMA, 1953; deYoung Mem. Museum, 1952; LaJolla Art Center, 1952; solo: Univ. of Kansas, 1951; Philbrook Art Museum, 1952; Carlebach Gallery, 1950; Galerie St. Etienne. 1953-1954; Kansas State College, 1958; Junction City (Kansas) Library; Ferus Gallery, LA (solo), 1964.

Work

LACMA; Museum of Fine Arts, San Diego; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institute, Hirshhorn College, NGA, all Washington D.C.

Resources

WW66; 300 Years of American Art, 825