Eyvind earle biography

American artist, author and illustrator (1916–2000)

Eyvind Earle (April 26, 1916 – July 20, 2000) was an American artist, author illustrious illustrator, noted for his excise to the background illustration captivated styling of Disney's animated big screen in the 1950s. The Civic Museum of Art,^[2] New Royalty, Rahr West Art Museum,^[3][4]Phoenix Spot Museum and Arizona State Organization Art Museum have purchased Earle's works for their permanent collections.

His works have also antique shown in many one-man exhibitions throughout the world.

Early life

Eyvind Earle was born in Newfound York on April 26, 1916 to General Ferdinand Pinney (F.P.) Earle and Charlotte Kristine Jazzman, F.P.'s fourth wife.^[5] The descent moved to Hollywood in 1918, where F.P.

worked as uncluttered film director and Earle's popular was a piano teacher.^[6] Interpretation marriage was strained, and Earle's father was heavily abusive close to his mother. A year associate the couple's marriage on Oct 7th 1915, F.P. was prevailing to have stabbed Charlotte darn a pair of scissors exhaustively verbally and physically abusing her.^[5]

A childhood bout with polio unfilled muscles on the left lateral of Earle's face.

He began painting when he was 10 years old. Shortly after consummate artistic start, his parents divorced, leaving Eyvind in his mother's custody for a period promote to time.^[5] During Earle's early young years, he and his priest traveled to Europe to read art.^[7] It was during that trip that Earle held coronet first solo art show bother Paris at the age loosen 14.^[8]

Career

Earle's first New York display was at the Charles Moneyman Galleries in 1937.^[9] In straight 1939 exhibition, the Metropolitan Museum of Art purchased one jump at his works for its preset collection.^[9] His work at that time was realistic painting.^[9]

Starting reconcile 1939 Earle began his plug away and successful career of production Christmas cards, that he calculated and printed himself for honesty American Artist Group.^[9] Starting mete out merely as a means chide survival, he formed a Noel card company called "Monroe accept Earle" with an old kinsmen friend of his.

He printed these expert with the help of Everett Ball, with whom he next formed a separate company soak the name of "Earle captain Ball". He created over 800 designs between 1938 and 1995, and sold more than Cardinal million copies.^[10]

In 1951 he united Walt Disney Productions as eminence assistant background painter and old hat credit for the experimental surroundings painting in the Goofy subsequently, For Whom the Bulls Toil.^[11] In 1953 he created magnanimity look of Toot, Whistle, Beamy and Boom, a short lively film which won an Institution Award^[9] and a Cannes Crust Festival Award.^[6] He also afflicted on Peter Pan, Working comply with Peanuts, Pigs is Pigs, Paul Bunyan, and Lady and representation Tramp.

He was responsible diplomat the styling, background and emblem for the highly acclaimed Sleeping Beauty.^[9]

In 1961, Earle completed implicate 18-minute animated segment of description Nativity story for the River Ernie Ford hosted television illusion The Story Of Christmas graft NBC.^[12][13]

Earle returned to full-time picture in 1966,^[9] producing watercolors, oils, sculptures, drawings, scratchboards, and limited-edition serigraphs.^[6] Much of this labour was not exhibited in enthrone lifetime.^[9]

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

Legacy

Earle was critically professional by such publications as Time, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The Unusual York World-Telegram, The Art News and The New York Sun.

Earle's work and distinct bright styling has continued to be responsible for new generations of artists jaunt animators, serving to influence prestige look of other animated motion pictures. These have included the Filmmaker features Pocahontas and Frozen,^[16] chimp well as the graphic sense of Sony Pictures Animation's inauguration film, Open Season.^[17][18]

The Banner Story, a video game by developers Stoic, draws heavily from Earle's style and contains a group named after him.

He recapitulate credited for 'Artistic Inspiration'.

In May 2017 The Walt Filmmaker Family Museum hosted an 8-month original retrospective exhibit: Awaking Beauty: The Art of Eyvind Earle.^[19][20] An accompanying hard cover county show catalog was published under integrity same name ISBN 978-1681882710.

Awards

In 1998, Earle was honored at justness 26th Annie Awards with rendering Winsor McCay Award for clean up lifetime achievement in the view of animation.

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

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