Vintage Walt Disney Hallmark Card Mary Blair

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Vintage Walt Disney Note Card Featuring Mary Blair Art. This delightful vintage note card features concept art from the Disney animated/live action film 'So Dear To My Heart' from 1949 by artist Mary Blair, who was the Art Director on the movie. Although framed, I'm pretty certain the card is vintage, based on the age of the frame backing. I don't want to remove the card from the frame, I'll leave that to the new owner.The frame is black wood, has glass and a double mat, and is ready to hang. I've included a picture of the back.The card measure approx 5" x 4" and the frame is 10" x 9"Please see my other auctions for 2 more of these framed cards. I am always willing to combine shipping.Shipping to U.S. addresses via carefully packaged Priority Mail for $11.00 (not including insurance, if requested) unless the winner specifically requires a faster option. International bidders, please use the shipping calculator as a guide. I'll give you an exact quote at the end of the auction.About Mary Blair: "An imaginative color stylist and designer, Mary Blair helped introduce modern art to Walt Disney and his Studio, and for nearly 30 years, he touted her inspirational work for his films and theme parks alike. Animator Marc Davis, who put Mary's exciting use of color on a par with Matisse, recalled, "She brought modern art to Walt in a way that no one else did. He was so excited about her work."Animator Frank Thomas added, "Mary was the first artist I knew of to have different shades of red next to each other. You just didn't do that! But Mary made it work."Walt connected with Mary's fresh, childlike art style. As Disney Imagineering artist Roland Crump once told animation historian John Canemaker, "The way she (Mary) painted - in a lot of ways she was still a little girl. Walt was like that... You could see he could relate to children - she was the same way."Born in McAlester, Oklahoma, in 1911, the inherently gifted artist won a scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. After graduation in 1933, at the height of the Depression, Mary took a job in the animation unit of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) rather than pursue her dream of a fine arts career.In 1940, she joined The Walt Disney Studios and worked on a number of projects, including the never-produced "Baby Ballet," part of a proposed second version of "Fantasia." (Walt's original idea was to periodically re-release "Fantasia" with new sequences.)In 1941, she joined the Disney expedition that toured South America for three months and painted watercolors that so captured the spirit of the Latin countries that she was named art supervisor on "The Three Caballeros" and "Saludos Amigos." Mary's unique color and styling greatly influenced such Disney postwar productions as "Song of the South," "Make Mine Music," "Melody Time," "So Dear to My Heart," "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad," "Cinderella," "Alice in Wonderland," and "Peter Pan." She also contributed to special shorts, including "The Little House" and "Susie, the Little Blue Coupe."Walt asked Mary to assist in the design of the It's a Small World attraction, which is pure Mary Blair in its style and concept, for the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. Over the years, she contributed to the design of many exhibits, attractions, and murals at the theme parks in California and Florida, including the fanciful murals in the Grand Canyon Concourse at the Contemporary Hotel at the Walt Disney World Resort.Mary Blair died July 26, 1978, in Soquel, California. read more

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