Mary Blair Reception Tuesday, December 4
The Art and Flair of Mary Blair
Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
7:00-9:00pm
Free and open to the public
Join the Cartoon Art Museum for a reception celebrating The Art and Flair of Mary Blair on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00pm. Special guests will include Kevin Blair, son of artist Mary Blair, and Blair aficionado Pete Docter, Director of Pixar Studios' Monsters, Inc.
This event is free and open to the public.
To preview additional images from this exhibition, please visit exhibition curator Andrew Farago's blog.
About the exhibition:
The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to present The Art and Flair of Mary Blair, a retrospective exhibition of the work of famed animation designer Mary Blair (1911-1978). One of the first women to work as a concept artist for Disney, Blair was responsible for the look of some of the key Disney films of the 1940s and 1950s including Cinderella and Peter Pan. Her colorful, charming geometric designs, synonymous with 1950s style, appeared in advertisements and children’s books. Perhaps her most famous creation, however, is the Disneyland attraction “It’s A Small World,” which Blair originally designed for the 1964 World’s Fair. She was posthumously recognized as a Disney Legend in 1991 and was honored with a Winsor McCay animation award in 1996.
This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition includes more than 50 pieces of original artwork, with an array of Blair’s groundbreaking concept art for classic Disney feature films including Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Peter Pan, Disney shorts such as The Little House, Johnny Appleseed, and Susie, The Little Blue Coupe, and Disney theme parks and attractions, including “It’s A Small World.”
The Art and Flair of Mary Blair showcases the full scope of Blair’s career as an artist and illustrator, including early watercolor paintings, commercial illustrations for such clients as Hanes, Pall Mall, and Baker’s Chocolate, a selection of Blair’s fine art, unpublished family photographs, and children’s book illustrations, including pages from the classic Little Golden Book I Can Fly.
Opening Reception: Tuesday, December 4, 2007
7:00-9:00pm
Free and open to the public
Join the Cartoon Art Museum for a reception celebrating The Art and Flair of Mary Blair on Tuesday, December 4, 2007, from 7:00 to 9:00pm. Special guests will include Kevin Blair, son of artist Mary Blair, and Blair aficionado Pete Docter, Director of Pixar Studios' Monsters, Inc.
This event is free and open to the public.
To preview additional images from this exhibition, please visit exhibition curator Andrew Farago's blog.
About the exhibition:
The Cartoon Art Museum is proud to present The Art and Flair of Mary Blair, a retrospective exhibition of the work of famed animation designer Mary Blair (1911-1978). One of the first women to work as a concept artist for Disney, Blair was responsible for the look of some of the key Disney films of the 1940s and 1950s including Cinderella and Peter Pan. Her colorful, charming geometric designs, synonymous with 1950s style, appeared in advertisements and children’s books. Perhaps her most famous creation, however, is the Disneyland attraction “It’s A Small World,” which Blair originally designed for the 1964 World’s Fair. She was posthumously recognized as a Disney Legend in 1991 and was honored with a Winsor McCay animation award in 1996.
This once-in-a-lifetime exhibition includes more than 50 pieces of original artwork, with an array of Blair’s groundbreaking concept art for classic Disney feature films including Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Peter Pan, Disney shorts such as The Little House, Johnny Appleseed, and Susie, The Little Blue Coupe, and Disney theme parks and attractions, including “It’s A Small World.”
The Art and Flair of Mary Blair showcases the full scope of Blair’s career as an artist and illustrator, including early watercolor paintings, commercial illustrations for such clients as Hanes, Pall Mall, and Baker’s Chocolate, a selection of Blair’s fine art, unpublished family photographs, and children’s book illustrations, including pages from the classic Little Golden Book I Can Fly.