Brooch, ca. 1960
Rutilated quartz, topaz, pearl and gold, 3-3/8 x 2-1/8 x 5/8 inches
Private Collection

Nellie Elizabeth (Walling) Blair was born December 4, 1906 in Great Falls, Montana daughter of Charles Tracy and Frances Walling. Blair's father, a mining engineer, moved the family back to his home state of Kentucky where Nellie studied math and education at Transylvania University and the University of Kentucky in Lexington. After a year of teaching school children at the Blue Diamond Coal Camp in Jackson, Kentucky, Nellie married and moved to Louisville where she studied art at the University of Louisville. She took and taught several courses at the Art Center from 1950 through the 1970s. Blair primarily designed and crafted jewelry and had several showings at the Louisville Art Club in the Henry Watterson Hotel. Nellie Blair died September 15, 1987.

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