100 Years of Color & Style
Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 10:21PM By: Nate Parrish
100 years ago today, Mary Robinson was born in McAlester Oklahoma. After attending college in San Jose, she attended Chouinard Art Institute where she would meet and then later marry artist Lee Blair. Oddly enough, although she is a Disney Legend and known predominantly for her work at Disney, she started her career at the Ub Iwerks, while Lee would start at the Harmon-Ising Studio; both studios ran by a former partner or employees of Walt Disney. By 1940 both were working off and on at the Disney Studio and although she worked on projects such as Dumbo and an early version of Lady and the Tramp, she would create a style that Disney fans would on a trip to South America with a select group of Disney Artists in 1941.
While most probably know that Mary Blair created the iconic styling of the characters within Its A Small World, theres still a lot more to her work than this single attraction. Heres a brief sampling of her magnificient work:
This piece came from the Good Neighbor Trip to South America, but would serve as the inspirtaion for Its A Small World.
I love this trian. So creative and innovative
Jose Cariocca concept art
More South American goodness
"The Little House" one of my favorite shorts
Cinderella concept art
Happy Birthday Mary!
Reader Comments (1)
Wow! Thats nice.