Pencil Test: Virgil Ross Scene From A Hare Grows In Manhattan

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 4 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great biographies of important artists.


Virgil Ross had a sixty year career in animation. He was a friend of mine and let me make flipbooks of some of his favorite scenes of animation. Today, I digitized one and made it into a pencil test. It's a little larger than usual so you can still frame through it and study the action.

Pencil Test By Virgil Ross
From "A Hare Grows In Manhattan" (WB/1946)
(Quicktime 7 / 4 megs)

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If you like this cartoon, see our previous post...


Bugs Bunny In Coronet Magazine

Also see... The Pencil Test Of Art Babbitt's Greatest Scene, The Training Of A Golden Age Animator, An Interview With Playboy's Eldon Dedini, John Canemaker on Bill Tytla, Ward Kimball In Escapade Magazine, A Drawing Lesson From Walter Lantz, Grim Natwick's Scrapbook and Remembering Berny Wolf

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Illustration: Coronet Magazine 1945

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for more jaw dropping examples of classic illustration.



Archive supporter, Rich Borowy stopped by to digitize some classic Stan Freberg radio shows for the archive database yesterday. Under his arm was a box of old Coronet and Omnibook magazines. Rich said that he was given the box at a garage sale that was closing down. I've never looked at these particular magazines, but they have wonderful illustrations and features. Here are highlights from the December, 1945 issue. Check it out. There's a big surprise at the end. Thanks for bringing these in, Rich!

Each issue opens with an inspirational message and illustration. This one is by illustrator, Vera Bock. Many issues contain the work of Arthur Szyk, whose book The New Order we featured last year. I'll be doing a whole post of Szyk illustrations from Coronet soon.


Next up is a retelling of "The Night Before Christmas" by Golden Book illustrator, Sheilah Beckett. Will Finn recently posted about her book on Gilbert & Sullivan Operettas. These pages strongly resemble the back of Little Golden Books. Do you think Sheilah Beckett designed that?




Here's a feature on the artists who created the Famous Artists Course... Stevan Dohanos, along with his illustrator friends Albert Dorne, Ben Stahl, Hardie Gramatky, Fred Ludekens and Dean Cornwall donated their services to decorate casts in the Halloran Army Hospital in New York.



And here's a feature on exotic superstitions and religious beliefs by Stevan Dohanos...



Here's a real surprise- The autobiography of Bugs Bunny! "A Hare Grows In Manhattan"...









If you enjoyed this post, check out... Little Verses Part One, Part Two and Part Three, Baby's House, Arthur Szyk's The New Order and Artzybasheff's Neurotica, Machinalia and Diablerie.

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