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Mary Blair

Mary Blair

1911–1978 · McAlester, Oklahoma, USA

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Biography

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 All, debuted at the New York World's Fair in 1964.

Art department 11

Acted in 2

1960s

  1. 1965

    Disneyland 10th Anniversary

    Movie

Visual effects 2

1940s

  1. 1942

    Lake Titicaca

    Color Designer

Wrote 1

1940s

  1. 1948

    Once Upon a Wintertime

    Story

Edited 1

1970s

  1. 1977

    Halloween Hall o' Fame

    Colorist

Appearances4

2020s

  1. 2025

    Mary Blair's Pigments of Imagination

    Self (Archive footage)

2000s

  1. 2005

    The Art of Mary Blair

    Self (archive footage)

1960s

  1. 1968

    Disneyland: From the Pirates of the Caribbean to the World of Tomorrow

    Self (uncredited)

  2. 1967