Mary Blaire?

[iheartdisney91]

my dad just told me that he thinks she died, he said that he forgot the name but he heard it today. something about perter pan and the small worlds art. and all and i thought immediately of Mary. if she has passes away that is truly sad seeing that she was amazing.
thanks for any help

 

[Nemo14]

Could this be who you meant?

http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?t=263372&highlight=smaLL+WORLD

 

[iheartdisney91]

YES! that must be what my dad meant. seeing that mary blaire died in 1978... thanks for the help!
my dad must have heard her name somewhere and thought of that just like i did.
haha

 

[mickeysaver]

Sadly, Mary Blair died in 1978. She did concept art work for several animated features. She made the Disneyland Tile Mural for It's a Small World, which was covered over in the late 80's and the tile artwork in the CR at WDW was designed by her too. I heard somewhere that she died of complications from prolonged alcoholism. Maggie

 

[atomicbear]

There is currently a show of Mary Blair's work in San Francisco at the Cartoon Art Museum. It's really good, but I am biased. Seeing her paintings in person is a wonderful experience.

Here is a link to some of the work displayed...http://andrewfarago.livejournal.com/22017.html

 

[CThaddeus]

Sadly, Mary Blair died in 1978. She did concept art work for several animated features. She made the Disneyland Tile Mural for It's a Small World, which was covered over in the late 80's and the tile artwork in the CR at WDW was designed by her too. I heard somewhere that she died of complications from prolonged alcoholism. Maggie

Actually, for accuracy's sake, she created the Disneyland tile murals (there were two) for the late '60s remodel of Tomorrowland. One of them was changed when Star Tours was being built around 1986. The other survived up until late 1996 when Tomorrowland '98 was being constructed. Actually I think this one might still be there, as I had heard they only covered it as you mentioned. The mural that replaced it was also replaced not too long ago for the arrival of Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters. Fortunately, some of her work still survives in the Parks in the form of It's a Small World.

 

[SewIn2Disney]

Mary Blaire is one of my favorite artists----I actually got a book about her Art from my bf for christmas.
Here's a website (yesterland) that shows her various tile murals. I love the tomorrowland in Disneyland one---it's one of my favorites.
http://www.yesterland.com/maryblair.html