Mary Blair calendar from 1955

Mary Blair is one of my all-time favorite illustrators, so I'm happy that Dan Goodsell scanned a 1955 Meadow Gold calendar by Blair and put it on Flickr.

Mary Blair did a lot of work for Disney as a concept artist for animation and theme park attractions. Animation historian John Canemaker wrote a book about her in 2003, The Art And Flair Of Mary Blair.

By the way, Dan Goodsell is a fine illustartor in his own right, and is having an art opening, "Mr Toast and Friends Show" at Monkeyhouse Toys in Silverlake on March 1st. Link

Previously on Boing Boing:
• Mary Blair exhibition in San Francisco
• Papercraft iPod covers
• It's "Mary Blair Week" at the ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive blog
• The art of Mary "Small World" Blair
• Mary Blair "Small World" designs

Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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I saw the show of Mary Blair’s art at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco last weekend. Its very beautiful.

It closes on March 18th.
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Looks like Dora the Explorer.
Keri

I just managed to snag this calendar off of eBay a couple of weeks ago. “Mary Blair” wasn’t in the description at all, so I’m guessing the seller didn’t realize.

It is, in fact, awesome.