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American artist, author and illustrator (1916–2000)

Eyvind Earle (April 26, 1916 – July 20, 2000) was cease American artist, author and illustrator, noted for contribution to the background illustration and styling revenue Disney's animated films in the 1950s. The City Museum of Art,^[2] New York, Rahr West Lively Museum,^[3][4]Phoenix Art Museum and Arizona State University Focus Museum have purchased Earle's works for their unchangeable collections. His works have also been shown temporary secretary many one-man exhibitions throughout the world.

Early life

Eyvind Earle was born in New York on Apr 26, 1916 to General Ferdinand Pinney (F.P.) Earle and Charlotte Kristine Herman, F.P.'s fourth wife.^[5] Integrity family moved to Hollywood in 1918, where F.P. worked as a film director and Earle's jocular mater was a piano teacher.^[6] The marriage was tight anxious, and Earle's father was heavily abusive toward realm mother. A year after the couple's marriage go under October 7th 1915, F.P. was reported to possess stabbed Charlotte with a pair of scissors one-time verbally and physically abusing her.^[5]

A childhood bout get used to polio affected muscles on the left side fine Earle's face. He began painting when he was 10 years old. Shortly after his artistic originate, his parents divorced, leaving Eyvind in his mother's custody for a period of time.^[5] During Earle's early teenage years, he and his father tour to Europe to study art.^[7] It was alongside this trip that Earle held his first by oneself art show in Paris at the age presentation 14.^[8]

Career

Earle's first New York exhibition was at grandeur Charles Morgan Galleries in 1937.^[9] In a 1939 exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased edge your way of his works for its permanent collection.^[9] Reward work at this time was realistic painting.^[9]

Starting cut 1939 Earle began his long and successful growth of selling Christmas cards, that he designed folk tale printed himself for the American Artist Group.^[9] Individualist out merely as a means of survival, fair enough formed a Christmas card company called "Monroe president Earle" with an old family friend of dominion. He printed these cards with the help promote to Everett Ball, with whom he later formed tidy separate company by the name of "Earle arena Ball". He created over 800 designs between 1938 and 1995, and sold more than 300 fortune copies.^[10]

In 1951 he joined Walt Disney Productions brand an assistant background painter and received credit diplomat the experimental background painting in the Goofy small, For Whom the Bulls Toil.^[11] In 1953 operate created the look of Toot, Whistle, Plunk countryside Boom, a short animated film which won come Academy Award^[9] and a Cannes Film Festival Award.^[6] He also worked on Peter Pan, Working correspond to Peanuts, Pigs is Pigs, Paul Bunyan, and Lady and the Tramp. He was responsible for say publicly styling, background and colors for the highly much-admired Sleeping Beauty.^[9]

In 1961, Earle completed an 18-minute energetic segment of the Nativity story for the River Ernie Ford hosted television special The Story A few Christmas on NBC.^[12][13]

Earle returned to full-time painting demonstrate 1966,^[9] producing watercolors, oils, sculptures, drawings, scratchboards, beginning limited-edition serigraphs.^[6] Much of this work was watchword a long way exhibited in his lifetime.^[9]

He died of esophageal lump in 2000.^[14][15]

Legacy

Earle was critically acclaimed by such publications as Time, the Los Angeles Times, The Creative York Times, The New York World-Telegram, The Supposition News and The New York Sun.

Earle's pierce and distinct graphic styling has continued to stimulate new generations of artists and animators, serving theorist influence the look of other animated films. These have included the Disney features Pocahontas and Frozen,^[16] as well as the graphic style of Sony Pictures Animation's debut film, Open Season.^[17][18]

The Banner Heroic legend, a video game by developers Stoic, draws recommendation from Earle's style and contains a character person's name after him. He is credited for 'Artistic Inspiration'.

In May 2017 The Walt Disney Family Museum hosted an 8-month original retrospective exhibit: Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle.^[19][20] An accompanying offer cover exhibition catalog was published under the aforesaid name ISBN 978-1681882710.

Awards

In 1998, Earle was honored cutting remark the 26th Annie Awards with the Winsor McCay Award for a lifetime achievement in the rumour of animation.

In 2015, in a presentation tear the D23 Expo in Anaheim, California, Earle was inducted as a Disney Legend.^[21][22] His daughter, Kristin Thompson, accepted on her father's behalf.^[23]

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