Eyvind Earle
Mr. Earle came to Walt Disney’s attention in the early 1950’s, when he created the look for the animated 1953 short ”Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom,” which won both an Oscar and a Cannes Film Festival award. For the rest of the decade, Disney kept him busy painting the settings for films like ”Peter Pan,”.
He was showing his work in galleries in Hollywood and Beverly Hills when he was 20; when he was 21 he bicycled across the country, paying his way by painting watercolors. He was 23 when he sold a watercolor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He began adapting his landscapes to Christmas cards in the 1940’s, eventually painting more than 800 designs that have sold more than 300 million copies
