Mary Blair was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for such films as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South and Cinderella.
18 Facts About Mary Blair
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Mary Blair was inducted into the group of Disney Legends in 1991.
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Mary Blair was the sister-in-law of animator Preston Blair.
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Mary Blair's watercolors impressed Disney, who appointed her as an art supervisor for the animated feature films Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros.
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Mary Blair first began animation and color design on major films in 1943 and would continue to work on animated films for Disney for a full decade.
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Mary Blair was credited with color styling on Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan, and the artistic influence of her concept art is strongly felt in those films, as well as in several animated shorts, including Susie the Little Blue Coupe and The Little House, she designed during that period.
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At the request of Walt Disney, who regarded highly her innate sense of color styling, Mary Blair began work on Disney's new attraction, "It's a Small World".
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Mary Blair created murals that would be showcased in Disney parks, hotels and other Disney attractions from California to Florida.
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Mary Blair designed the mural for Dr Stein's Pediatric Surgery waiting room.
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In 1967, Mary Blair created mural art for the Tomorrowland Promenade.
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Mary Blair would go on to make sets of Walt Disney note cards for Hallmark.
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In 1968, Mary Blair was credited as color designer on the film How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying.
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Mary Blair moved back to California and died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Soquel, California on July 26,1978, aged 66.
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Mary Blair's death was likely brought on by acute alcoholism.
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The Doodle featured an image of an illustrator as Mary Blair might have drawn herself, surrounded by the simple patterns and shapes that made up her familiar cartoon world.
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Mary Blair has been credited with introducing modernist art styles to Walt Disney and his studio by using primary colors to form intense contrast and colors that are unnatural to the image they are depicting.
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From March 13 to September 7,2014, the Magic, Color, Flair: The World of Mary Blair exhibition was on display at the Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco Presidio, California.
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In 2022, a mural of Mary Blair was unveiled in her hometown of McAlester, Oklahoma.