Carl Blair (November 28, 1932 – January 22, 2018) was an artist and, for more than forty years, a member of the art faculty at Bob Jones University.
[3] Blair exhibited his work in more than a hundred museums, art galleries and universities and won more than ninety national, state, and regional awards.
[6] Although best known for his oil, gouache, and acrylic paintings, late in his career, Blair began exhibiting sculpture,[7] especially whimsical animals crafted of plywood or spruce pine boards and accessorized with found objects such as marbles and screws.
[8] Blair did not discover he was color-blind until he was an art student at the University of Kansas; when asked to do a self-portrait, he painted himself green.
[14] In the exhibition catalog, a fellow artist described Blair as "challenging, encouraging, helpful, witty, and inspirational to all his students".