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Streeter Blair

Streeter Blair (1888 - 1966) was active/lived in California, Kansas.  Streeter Blair is known for Naive rural genre and landscape.

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STREETER BLAIR

By the age of sixty, Streeter Blair had tried half a dozen careers.  As with any authentic primitive painter, Blair's first subject was the farm.  His father ran the local Grange store in Cadmus, Kansas,  where he was born in 1888. 

He grew up on a farm, thought he hated it, until he started to paint. He painted youngsters playing leapfrog, Christmas carolers practicing around the family piano, an ice-cream social.  As a purveyor of nostalgia, he invited comparison to Grandma Moses.  He was unable to conquer perspective, or master the technique of shadows.  His rivers run up and down hillsides, the passengers in his buckboards were sometimes bigger than the horses.  Like Grandma Moses, he never went to art shows, completely ignored art magazines and firmly refused to take formal instruction. 

If the public was slow to discover Blair, such young avant-garde artists as Edward Kienholtz and Billy Al Bengsto   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3525 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Streeter Blair

   Streeter Blair  Born:  1888 - Cadmus, Kansas
Died:   1966 - Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 3, 1966.
Known for:  Naive rural genre and landscape

STREETER BLAIR

By the age of sixty, Streeter Blair had tried half a dozen careers.  As with any authentic primitive painter, Blair's first subject was the farm.  His father ran the local Grange store in Cadmus, Kansas,  where he was born in 1888. 

He grew up on a farm, thought he hated it, until he started to paint. He painted youngsters playing leapfrog, Christmas carolers practicing around the family piano, an ice-cream social.  As a purveyor of nostalgia, he invited comparison to Grandma Moses.  He was unable to conquer perspective, or master the technique of shadows.  His rivers run up and down hillsides, the passengers in his buckboards were sometimes bigger than the horses.  Like   ...  Displaying 750 of 3525 characters.

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