Animation Artifacts &Illustration 12 Jul 2006 07:32 am
Celebrity Caricature
-I’m currently researching the art of Covarrubias. An exhibit at New York’s Public Library at 42nd Street in 1998 was one of the best I’ve ever seen. It was a program of “Celebrity Caricature” mostly from the 20′s & 30′s. Covarrubias, the developing Hirschfield, and a number of other brilliant artists were all represented well. In among the art was a small section on animated caricature. Drawings by Tee Hee and Joe Morgan were on display with a couple of cel set-ups. There were also a couple of WB model sheets (without artist names.)
From the book of that exhibit I’m posting some of the animation art represented. Again no names are given.
(cel – Charlie McCarthy & W.C. Fields in “Mother Goose Goes Hollywood”)
(Click on any image to enlarge)
(Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye from “Autograph Hound”)
(Garbo & Mickey – animation drawing for Mickey’s Gala Premiere)
(Greta Garbo model sheet for Warner Bros.)
A small sampling of this show can be found on the National Portrait Gallery website. Non-animation caricatures are on view there, and the beautiful book/catalogue can be purchased there.
Credits for the above stills goes to:
1. “Mother Goose Goes Hollywood” from the collection of Jeff & Therese Lotman
2-5. “Autograph Hound” National Portrait Gallery, Wash.D.C.
6. “Mickey’s Gala Premiere” WDFeature Animation Research Library
7. The Steve Schneider Collection
- Actor, Barnard Hughes died yesterday at age 90. I worked with him several times and found him hilariously subtle in his sense of humor. He was the perfect actor in a couple of my films. In What’s Under My Bed? he told a nightmarish story in my adaptation of James Stevenson‘s book. In The Emperor’s New Clothes, he was one of five narrators telling the tale. I’ll miss his talent. This is the NY Times obituary.
- In case Cartoon Brew‘s link to Jim Hill Media hasn’t enouraged you, let me give you the link to the Floyd Norman article there about life in the “Bullpen” at Disney in the ’50s. Floyd’s book, How The Grinch Stole Disney, is on sale at Afrokids, and I encourage you to look into it. The man has a real wit and it comes across well in all of his books.
on 15 Jul 2006 at 3:33 pm 1.Henry Lowengard said …
I’m glad they are including Marius de Zayas, whose work is simultaneously abstract and exact.
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