Blair Gordon Newell = Gordon Newell?
From my cursory search, it would seem so: birthdate and death seem to coincide (though I saw conflicting places of birth/death), both sculptors, both apprenticed under Ralph Stackpole, other matching bio details. If so, then Gordon Newell was married to the actress Gloria Stuart for a short while (1930's). From the Berkeley Daily Gazette (June 20, 1930):