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Robert Noel Blair
Minimalist Landscape Watercolor 1940's American Modern Robert Blair Black Blue
1940's

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An original minimalist landscape watercolor on paper painting by American modernist painter Robert Noel Blair depicting a landscape with trees, Circa 1940. Blair was a friend and collaborator with Charles Burchfield. This work is currently offered including a contemporary frame presentation. Probably one of the most influential artists to use watercolor in the mid-twentieth century was Western New York painter Robert Blair. Born in 1912 in Buffalo, N.Y., Blair decided he wanted to become an artist in his teens. He studied art at the Albright Art School in Buffalo and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Mass., during the early 1930s. It was during this time that he met and befriended fellow watercolorist Charles Burchfield. Although he is best known for his watercolor paintings, Blair also worked in sculpture, oils, pen and ink, acrylic, and printmaking. His style varies from expressionistic to almost pure abstraction. Through the use of movement and color, Blair is able to capture the beauty and drama of nature. His inspiration to paint nature first came to him during family trips to Fletcher, Vermont. Spending his free time surrounded by the beauty of a rural landscape ultimately led to some of his favorite subjects and most popular works. Blair was inspired not only by the countryside, but also by the animals—particularly horses—that inhabited the land. The artist has said of Vermont: “There is nowhere else that I know where you can stand in one spot and turn slowly in a circle and be completely inspired at every degree of the turn.”[1] In his 30s, Blair went to fight for his country overseas. When Blair served in World War II his subject matter changed and he produced works that reflected the destruction and devastation caused by war. One of his most famous wartime paintings is The Battle of the Bulge. After he returned from the war, he settled down with his wife (also an artist) and three children in East Aurora, N.Y. It was then that Blair began to teach art throughout the Western New York area and elsewhere across the country. During the 1940s Blair received many awards and major commissions. In 1947 he painted a large mural for the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. In 1946 and 1951 he was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship, which allowed him to travel on motorcycle across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The goal of these journeys was to remove himself from the familiar and ultimately create something entirely different. He continued to do this well into his 80s. His works can be seen in the collections of the Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Ford Motor Company, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Butler Institute of American Art, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute of Utica, Colgate University, the Bryn Mawr Art Association, the Dubuque Art Association, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection of Marine Paintings.[2]

Creator:
Robert Noel Blair (1912 - 2003, American)
Creation Year:
1940's
Dimensions:
Height: 28 in (71.12 cm)Width: 36 in (91.44 cm)
Medium:
Paper,Watercolor
Movement & Style:
American Modern
Period:
1940-1949
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Buffalo, NY
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU13923906012

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