about
Carl Blair

Born: Atchinson, Kansas 1932

Education:
MFA, Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design
B.F.A. University of Kansas

Activities & Positions:

• Art Faculty, Bob Jones University 1957 – 1998
• Art Faculty, Kansas City Art Institute Summer Programs
• Cooperating Faculty, Greenville County Museum of Art
• Art in the Embassies sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
• Paintings in the American Embassy, Cairo, Egypt and Mauritania, West Africa
• S.C. Art Commission, Chairman 1994 – 1996

Exhibitions:

Shown in more than one hundred museums, galleries and universities including:

• Brenau College National Painting Invitational,
• 33rd Butler Institute “Mid-year Invitational”,
• Art Across America – The Mead Paper Company,
• International Platform Assoc. (Washington, DC)
• Bertha Schaefer Gallery (NYC),
• Issac Delgado Museum (New Orleans)
• Columbia Museum of Art 2001.

Permanent Collections:

Works in some 2500 permanent private, corporate and public collections including:

• IBM,
• Spaulding Corp.,
• BASF Corp.,
• Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery (University of Nebraska),
• McDonalds International,
• Hyatt Hotel,
• Price Waterhouse Coopers, and
• Tuskeegee Institute.

Publications:

• The Fine Art Index,
• American Artists,
• New York Art Review
• The Art Gallery Magazine
• La Revue Moderne.
• Biography – International Directory of Art;
• Dictionary of International Biography;
• Men of Achievement;
• International Directory of Distinguished Leadership;
• International Leaders in Achievement.