A sculptor of portraits of sports figures and illustrator, Blair Buswell has had a career that bridged his involvement with both sports and fine art. His studio has been in Highland, Utah. He studied... Read full biography
A sculptor of portraits of sports figures and illustrator, Blair Buswell has had a career that bridged his involvement with both sports and fine art. His studio has been in Highland, Utah. He studied art when he attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, and later transferred to Utah State where he... Read full biography
A sculptor of portraits of sports figures and illustrator, Blair Buswell has had a career that bridged his involvement with both sports and fine art. His studio has been in Highland, Utah. He studied art when he attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, and later transferred to Utah State where he majored in illustration. He earned a degree in art education and sculpture from Brigham Young University in Utah. In 1982, while Buswell was a senior in college, he was hired by Bill Walsh, coach of... Read full biography
A sculptor of portraits of sports figures and illustrator, Blair Buswell has had a career that bridged his involvement with both sports and fine art. His studio has been in Highland, Utah. He studied art when he attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, and later transferred to Utah State where he majored in illustration. He earned a degree in art education and sculpture from Brigham Young University in Utah. In 1982, while Buswell was a senior in college, he was hired by Bill Walsh, coach of the San Francisco 49ers that had just won the Super Bowl, to do a sculpture of Walsh and Ed DeBartlo, the owner of the 49ers. That was the defining moment in his career of making portrait busts. Many of his works have been shown at the National... Read full biography
A sculptor of portraits of sports figures and illustrator, Blair Buswell has had a career that bridged his involvement with both sports and fine art. His studio has been in Highland, Utah. He studied art when he attended Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho, and later transferred to Utah State where he majored in illustration. He earned a degree in art education and sculpture from Brigham Young University in Utah. In 1982, while Buswell was a senior in college, he was hired by Bill Walsh, coach of the San Francisco 49ers that had just won the Super Bowl, to do a sculpture of Walsh and Ed DeBartlo, the owner of the 49ers. That was the defining moment in his career of making portrait busts. Many of his works have been shown at the National Academy of Western Art and the Prix de West shows at the Cowboy Hall of Fame. He is a Fellow in the National S... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (8)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Western Rendezvous of Art 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Ed. Montana Historical Society
0 pages (color)
Sculpture in the Park 2003 Lovelands High Plains Council (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Editors
200 pages
Prix de West 30th Anniversary 2003 (Exhibition catalog)
2003
Schroeder, Charles (Intro)
204 pages (color)
Art of the West Guidebook of Western Artists 2001 Edition
2001
Editors, Art of the West
88 pages (color)
Western Rendezvous of Art Twentieth Annual (Exhibition catalog)
1998
Western Rendezvous of Art
48 pages (color)
Prix de West Invitational 1997 (Exhibition catalog)
1997
National Cowboy Hall of Fame
194 pages (color)
Prix de West Invitational 1996 (Exhibition catalog)