Biography: Preston Blair (1908-1995) Born: Los Angeles, CA; Studied: Los Angeles Art Institute, Chouinard Art Institute (Los Angeles); Member: American Watercolor Society, California Water Color Society. Preston Blair grew up in Southern California and studied art with Roscoe Shrader and Pruett Carter during the early 1930s. In the following years, he...... read more
Bunker Hill Cable Car, 1938 by Preston Blair. This painting is available as a giclée print on premium watercolor paper.
Exhibited: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan, ''The Colors of Mary Blair'', July-October 2009.
California Scene Paintings 1930 - 1960, Pasadena Museum of California Art, March - July, 2013.
California Scene Paintings 1930 - 1960, The Irvine Museum, January 18 - May 18, 2014.
Literature: As seen in Los Angeles Area Scene Painting by Gordon T. McClelland & Austin D. McClelland.
Windows in Time, California Scene Paintings from the Hilbert Collection, by Mark Hilbert and Jean Stern.
