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Dec 16, 2023 · Instead she wanted to pursue fine art and illustration where she could have more autonomy. “She decided she didn’t want to have anything more to do with animation, so she went home and started painting seriously”, recalled fellow artist, and her husband, Lee Blair.
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Feb 5, 2019 · Lee Blair was one such artist, and he found employment at Walt Disney Studios while American citizens were climbing out of the depression during 1938. A whole two years later, Lee managed to get his wife hired and Mary began her career with Walt Disney Studios during 1940.
Mar 11, 2014 · Blair’s posthumous celebrity registers a deeply personal note for me, as I knew her—and her husband Lee Blair, also an accomplished artist—during the final years of their lives in Soquel, where they made their residence after returning to California from Long Island in the late 1960s.
She reveals her life philosophy and goal in a letter written to her husband, Lee Blair, shortly after their marriage in 1933: “We are artists, dear, in love with art and each other. We must make these loves coincide and melt into a beautiful, happy and rich life -- that is our future… we’ll live to be happy and paint to express our ...
Jun 16, 2016 · It was here that the then-Mary Browne Robinson met her future husband, Lee Blair. He was another scholarship student, and her involvement with Lee led to an interest in fine-art painting. Together they developed a handsome style of watercolor painting that was very popular during the Depression and exhibited in galleries nationwide.
After Blair joined Disney Studios in 1940, her art began to catch Walt’s eye. In 1941, she and husband Lee accompanied Walt Disney, his wife Lillian, and a small group of other Disney artists on a three-month “artistic ambassador” tour of South America sponsored by the U.S. government, aimed at increasing good will between the United ...
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Mar 21, 2014 · Mary and her husband Lee Blair had a dream of making fine art, but they had to make money and found work in animation studios. Lee was hired at Disney in 1938 and Mary followed in 1940 as a...
