Today, Google celebrates with a doodle the 100th birthday of Mary Blair, the late artist who helped animate beloved Disney films such as “Alice in Wonderland,” “Cinderella” and “Peter Pan.”

Mary Blair
(Courtesy of MagicofMaryBlair.com)
Blair was known for using simple shapes coupled with bold design and color. As the Post’s Michael Cavna notes, today’s doodle “honors that very eye for color, rendered with a bright, expressive palette and playful, almost kinetic design.”
After leaving Disney, Blair helped illustrate Simon and Schuster’s Golden Books for Children and was later asked to work on Disney theme park attractions, including the “It’s a Small World” ride at Disneyland. She died in 1978.
Below, see some of Blair’s work, courtesy of MagicofMaryBlair.com:
A 1941 illustration from Disney Studios’ “South American Goodwill Tour”:

An illustration for Disney’s film “Johnny Appleseed”:

Two illustrations for “Alice in Wonderland”:


An illustration that influenced “Cinderella”:
An illustration for “Peter Pan”:

In the late 1950s and early ’60s, Blair worked on ads, including this one for Baker’s instant cocoa:
And this one for Teem Lemon Lime drink:

She also had more time to experiment with her style for family members:

And in the 1970s, the last years of Blair’s life, she even worked with nudes, what MagicofMary.com writes was “jaunty, teasing, sometimes absurd but always ‘innocent’ and undeniably… Mary Blair.”








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