Time Travel Tuesday: Mary Blair, again

Long before the incep­tion of this blog, I’ve been in love with Mary Blair. Over the years I’ve fea­tured her work a cou­ple of times. I nev­er tire of it! It’s beau­ti­ful, col­or­ful, adorable, and makes for great tat­toos (I know from first hand expe­ri­ence). She was one of the first illus­tra­tors I became obsessed with, and her shape design and pat­tern-pair­ing is still some­thing I refer to this day.

You’ve no doubt seen Mary Blair’s work around. She left­er her lega­cy with ear­ly Dis­ney ani­ma­tions, work­ing on con­cept art for Dum­bo, an ear­ly ver­sion of Lady and the Tramp, and a sec­ond ver­sion of Fan­ta­sia (the one released in the 1990’s). In addi­tion, she did work for adver­tis­ing and Gold­en Books.

I found all of the fol­low­ing images via Den­ki-Mirai, which had a bit of Mary Blair’s lat­er works. These are less tight, more expres­sive, and less inno­cent than work of before.