A few weeks ago I was California visiting my boyfriend and after three attempts to see The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco (we didn't plan so well and they are not open on Tuesday which was a bit random I thought) we finally made it on a Thursday. We purchased tickets for the museum and the Mary Blair exhibit they currently have right now that goes until September 7th if anyone is interested in visiting. If you're wanting to see the museum and any of the artist exhibits, give yourself about 4 hours to go through everything if you're like me and want to take lots of photos and see all the rooms. The museum itself is quite wonderful but for me, my favorite part and the reason I wanted to go, was to see the Mary Blair exhibit.
If you are not familiar with Mary, she was an artist for Walt Disney from around 1940 to the 1960's creating amazing concept art, character design, and art direction for many films including Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan and Cinderella, along with many other projects as well as children books. If you would like to read more info about her and her life the Magic of Mary Blair site is a good one.
For me and many other artists and designers, she has been a huge source of inspiration throughout my life with her amazing use of color and design. I did my best to get some good photos of the exhibit to post but unfortunately due to really low light in the museum most of my photos came out really blurry (insert sad face). Here are a few that were somewhat good enough to post.
Be sure to check out her work on line to see a better representation of her use of color and design. I may pull some of my favorites to post that didn't come out in photos very well.
Have a wonderful Wednesday!
-Sara
(Image of Mary Blair and exhibit show info banner from The Walt Disney Family Museum.)
Thank you! I really want and need to see Mary's exhibit soon.
ReplyDeleteYou do! It's a great exhibit if you can make it there :)
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