Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Media: Mary Blair's Little Verses Part One
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Mary Blair has become well known in the past few years for her concept work on Disney's classic animated features of the forties and fifties, but two of her masterpieces remain unavailable for viewing... one is the set of murals she designed at the entrance to Tomorrowland in Disneyland, which were covered up several years ago by a plastic wall covering that was supposed to look futuristic... and the other masterpiece is her Golden Book titled, "Little Verses", which has been out of print for over 40 years.
Originally serialized in the children's magazine, "Highlights" in the early fifties, these paintings were issued as an oversized Golden Book in the early 60s. This particular Golden Book is one of the most sought after titles by collectors. Rita Street was kind enough to loan a copy to be be digitized for the Archive's image database. I've done a little Photoshopping to remove the text, so you can see the paintings unobstructed.
Here are a few scans from this beautiful book...
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For more by Mary Blair, see... Mary Blair Song Book Part One, Part Two and Part Three; as well as Baby's House.
See also... Bozo and his Rocket Ship, Rojankovsky's Frog Went A Courting, Tibor Gergely's A Day In The Jungle, Gustaf Tenggren's The Little Trapper, Uncle Remus Stories Part One and Part Two, The New Golden Song Book Part One, Part Two and Part Three, and Huckleberry Hound Builds A House.
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Stephen Worth
Director
ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive
5.27.08
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4 Comments:
Wow. Love these illustrations. Thanks for posting them. New to your site, looking forward to more lovely drawings in the future. This may sound stupid, and I hope you don't think this is an abomination of this artwork, but I am always on the hunt for tattoo ideas from children's books. These provided a lot of inspiration. I especially love the tree roots that turn into an underground light fixture.
Simply delightful. :)
I love Mary Blair. Man, what incredibly good taste she had. I'd love to see some forward thinking editor compile all of her childrens' books under one cover. She's so influential today, too. You have to wonder if we'd have a Craig McCracken ir a Tim Biskup if she hadn't existed to publish such beautiful, intelligent illustrations and designs.
If you've got more like this, please post it. Pleease post it, I should say. Thanks!
I saw the the cover peaking from me on a shelf in a Antique store in small town in Ohio and couldnt believe it.
Walked over picked it up looked at the price and said, holy ****
2 bucks later Little Verses was mine
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