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Mary Blair
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American artist (1911-1978)
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Mary Blair (born Mary Browne Robinson) was an American illustrator and painter. She was educated at San Jose State University and studied under Morgan Russell and Millard Sheets. Her professional career included work for Walt Disney Studios and the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio. She resided in Los Angeles, New York City, and Soquel.
Blair was married to Lee Blair and held United States citizenship. She received the Disney Legends award and the Winsor McCay Award. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage from natural causes in Soquel on July 26, 1978. She was born on October 21, 1911, in McAlester, Oklahoma.
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Film & TV
McAlester, Oklahoma, USA
Blair's career began as a watercolor painter before joining the Walt Disney Studio in 1941. Blair started as a sketch artist before moving into art direction and inspirational sketches. Although a vast majority of her work was thrown out, Blair's fingerprints remain all over the studio's output both in animation and at various Disney Parks. Her signature design piece, It's All Small World After…
Known for
- Mary Blair's Pigments of Imagination — Self (Archive footage)2025
- The Art of Mary Blair — Self (archive footage)2005
- Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow — Self (uncredited)1968
- The Ceramic Mural — Self1967
- Disneyland 10th Anniversary1965
- Saludos Amigos — Mary Blair1942
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Blair
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- McAlester
- Place of death
- Soquel
- Spouse
- Lee Blair
- Educated at
- San Jose State University
- Employer
- Walt Disney Studios
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- Winsor McCay Award
- Student of
- Millard Sheets
- Image
- Mary Blair.jpg
- Residence
- Soquel
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- date of birth
- 1911-10-21
- date of death
- 1978-07-26
- Commons category
- Mary Blair
- birth name
- Mary Browne Robinson
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- married name
- Mary Robinson Blair
- has works in the collection
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
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