I've always loved the look of Mary Blair's art. I was always drawn to her fearless color palette, especially with Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland concept art.
I admire Mary's example in the early years of animation, where the field was very much a boy's club. She paved the way and won the admiration and respect of Walt Disney himself.
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Mary graduated from San Jose State College and won a scholarship to the renowned Chouinard Art Institute in LA. In 1934, she married another artist, Lee Everett Blair.
Mary and Lee both soon began to work in the animation industry, joining the Ub Iwerks studio. Lee went on to work at the Harman-Ising studios, before ultimately joining the Walt Disney studio, where he was joined by his wife in 1940.She worked on films such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Song of the South, and Cinderella.
At the request of Walt Disney, who regarded highly her innate sense of color styling, Blair created a look for Disney's new attraction, "It's a Small World".
*source: Wikipedia
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